Electrophoretic analysis of genetic variability within Cryptosporidium parvum from imported and autochthonous cases of human cryptosporidiosis in the United Kingdom

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 69, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 2719-2730

  Gasser, R B ^a   Abs EL Osta, Y G ^a   Chalmers, R M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b SINGLETON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; ELECTROPHORESIS; GENES;

SINGLE-STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM (SSCP);

MICROBIOLOGY;

CELL NUCLEUS DNA; SMALL SUBUNIT RIBOSOMAL RNA;

EUKARYOTE; GENETIC VARIATION; PARASITIC DISEASE;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYST; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM; UNITED KINGDOM;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHILD; CHILD DAY CARE CENTERS; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA, INTERGENIC; DNA, PROTOZOAN; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; GENES, PROTOZOAN; GENOTYPE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TRAVEL; VARIATION (GENETICS); WATER;

CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; MYXOGASTRIA; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0038559548     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.69.5.2719-2730.2003     Document Type: Article

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