Direct comparison of selected methods for genetic categorisation of Cryptosporidium parvum and Cryptosporidium hominis species

International Journal for Parasitology

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 397-410

  Chalmers, Rachel M ^a   Ferguson, Christobel ^b   Cacciò, Simone ^c   Gasser, Robin B ^d   Abs El Osta, Youssef G ^d   Heijnen, Leo ^e   Xiao, Lihua ^f   Elwin, Kristin ^a   Hadfield, Stephen ^a   Sinclair, Martha ^g   Stevens, Melita ^h  

^a SINGLETON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b Sydney Catchment Authority   (Australia)

^c ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^e KWR WATERCYCLE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^f CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^g MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^h MELBOURNE WATER CORPORATION   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cryptosporidium; DNA sequence analysis; Epidemiology; Genotyping; Microsatellites; Single strand conformation polymorphism analysis; Subgenotyping

Indexed keywords

GLYCOPROTEIN; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 70; INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER 2; RIBOSOME DNA; RIBOSOME RNA;

GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; PARASITE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM HOMINIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYST; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM;

CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM HOMINIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM;

EID: 20144380820     PISSN: 00207519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2005.01.001     Document Type: Article

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