Detection and discrimination of Cryptosporidium parvum and C. hominis in water samples by immunomagnetic separation-PCR

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 898-903

  Ochiai, Yoshitsugu ^a,b   Takada, Chieko ^a   Hosaka, Mitsugu ^a  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Japan)

^b NIPPON VETERINARY AND LIFE SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASES; GENES; GENETIC ENGINEERING; POTABLE WATER; RECOVERY;

FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY ASSAY; IMMUNOMAGNETIC SEPARATIONS; OOCYSTS; WATER BORNE DISEASES;

MICROORGANISMS;

DRINKING WATER; RIVER WATER;

DETECTION METHOD; DRINKING WATER; PATHOGEN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM HOMINIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; DNA EXTRACTION; EPIDEMIC; GENE IDENTIFICATION; IMMUNOASSAY; IMMUNOMAGNETIC SEPARATION; INFECTION CONTROL; MICROORGANISM DETECTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYST; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER SAMPLING;

ANIMALS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; DNA, PROTOZOAN; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; HUMANS; IMMUNOMAGNETIC SEPARATION; OOCYSTS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RIVERS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

CRYPTOSPORIDIUM HOMINIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; PROTOZOA;

EID: 13544277387     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.71.2.898-903.2005     Document Type: Article

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