The effect of heating against Cryptosporidium oocysts

Journal of Veterinary Medical Science

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 199-200

  Fujino, Takashi ^a   Matsui, Toshihiro ^a   Kobayashi, Fumie ^a   Haruki, Kosuke ^a   Yoshino, Yukiko ^b   Kajima, Junko ^c   Tsuji, Moriyasu ^a  

^a KYORIN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b KYORIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Japan Association of Parasite Control   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chicken Cryptosporidium; Cryptosporidium muris; Cryptosporidium parvum; Infectivity of heated oocyst

Indexed keywords

CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM MURIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM SP.; GALLUS GALLUS;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BIRD DISEASE; CHICKEN; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; FECES; GERMFREE ANIMAL; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HEAT; INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH MOUSE; JAPAN; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; OOCYTE; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CHICKENS; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; FECES; HEAT; JAPAN; MICE; MICE, INBRED ICR; MICE, SCID; OOCYTES; POULTRY DISEASES; SPECIFIC PATHOGEN-FREE ORGANISMS;

EID: 0036513447     PISSN: 09167250     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1292/jvms.64.199     Document Type: Article

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