Morphologic, host specificity, and molecular characterization of a Hungarian Cryptosporidium meleagridis isolate

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 735-738

  Sréter, Tamás ^a   Kovács, Gábor ^b   Da Silva, Alexandre J ^c   Pieniazek, Norman J ^c,d   Széll, Zoltán ^a   Dobos Kovács, Mihaly ^a   Márialigeti, Károly ^b   Varga, István ^a  

^a SZENT ISTVÁN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^c NATL CENTER FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^d CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME RNA;

FUNGUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MORPHOLOGY;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHICKEN; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUNGARY; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYST; RNA GENE; SMALL INTESTINE; TAXONOMY; TURKEY (BIRD); ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALIA; AVES; BAILEYI; BOVINAE; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM BAILEYI; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM FELIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM MELEAGRIDIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; FELIS; FUNGI; GALLUS GALLUS; MELEAGRIS GALLOPAVO; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0037538408     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.66.2.735-738.2000     Document Type: Article

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