Survey of Cryptosporidium parvum genotypes in humans from the UK by mutation scanning analysis of a heat shock protein gene region

Molecular and Cellular Probes

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 127-134

  Abs EL Osta, Youssef G ^a   Chalmers, Rachel M ^b   Gasser, Robin B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b SINGLETON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cryptosporidiosis; Cryptosporidium parvum; Diagnosis; Genotypes; Heat shock protein 70 gene; Single strand conformation polymorphism

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 70; PROTOZOAL DNA;

AMPLICON; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ERROR; FECES; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME SIZE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYST; PARASITE ISOLATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM; UNITED KINGDOM;

CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM;

EID: 0041942743     PISSN: 08908508     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0890-8508(03)00030-6     Document Type: Article

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