Genetic characterisation of Cryptosporidium from a wild population of eastern grey kangaroos Macropus giganteus inhabiting a water catchment

Infection, Genetics and Evolution

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 59-67

  Power, Michelle L ^a,b   Slade, Martin B ^a   Sangster, Nicholas C ^b   Veal, Duncan A ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cryptosporidium; Genotypes; Marsupials; Phylogenetic analyses

Indexed keywords

HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 70; INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER 1; NUCLEOTIDE; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; RIBOSOME DNA;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CATCHMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; DNA SEQUENCE; FECES ANALYSIS; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; GENOTYPE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; KANGAROO; MARSUPIAL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYST; PARASITE ISOLATION; PARASITE VIRULENCE; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES HABITAT; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; WILDLIFE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; ENVIRONMENT; FECES; GENOTYPE; HSP70 HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; HUMANS; MACROPODIDAE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VARIATION (GENETICS);

CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; MACROPODIDAE; MACROPUS; MACROPUS GIGANTEUS; METATHERIA;

EID: 1542288939     PISSN: 15671348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2004.01.002     Document Type: Article

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