Biological characterisation of Cryptosporidium parvum isolates of wildlife rodents in Poland

Annals of Agriculture and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 163-169

  Bednarska, Małgorzata ^a   Bajer, Anna ^a   Kuliś, Karolina ^a   Siński, Edward ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

Cryptosporidium parvum; Infectivity; Oocysts measurements; Poland; Rodents

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; FEMALE; FOREST; GENOTYPE; HEALTH HAZARD; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OOCYST; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; POLAND; PROTOZOAL INFECTION; RODENT; WILDLIFE; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; POLAND; RATS; RODENT DISEASES; RODENTIA; SPECIFIC PATHOGEN-FREE ORGANISMS;

ANIMALIA; APODEMUS; APODEMUS FLAVICOLLIS; CLETHRIONOMYS; CLETHRIONOMYS GLAREOLUS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; MICROTUS; MICROTUS ARVALIS; PROTOZOA; RODENTIA;

EID: 0347131109     PISSN: 12321966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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