Cryptosporidium parvum and Giardia lamblia recovered from flies on a cattle farm and in a landfill

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 70, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 3742-3744

  Szostakowska, Beata ^a   Kruminis Lozowska, Wieslawa ^a   Racewicz, Maria ^a   Knight, Ronald ^b   Tamang, Leena ^b   Myjak, Przemyslaw ^a   Graczyk, Thaddeus ^b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GDANSK   (Poland)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODIES; LAND FILL; MICROORGANISMS; PATHOLOGY;

CATTLE BARNS; PATHOGENS;

MICROBIOLOGY;

MICROBIOLOGY;

ARTICLE; CATTLE FARMING; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; FLY; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; LANDFILL; NONHUMAN;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; DAIRYING; DIPTERA; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; GIARDIASIS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; INSECT VECTORS; REFUSE DISPOSAL;

ARACHNIDA; BOS TAURUS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; GIARDIA; GIARDIA INTESTINALIS; HEXAPODA; PROTOZOA;

EID: 2942565663     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.70.6.3742-3744.2004     Document Type: Article

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