Cryptosporidium and cryptosporidiosis in Denmark - Current status

Parassitologia

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 193-198

  Enemark, Heidi L ^a   Langkjaer, R B ^a   Vigre, H ^a   Maddox Hyttel, C ^a   Andersen, J S ^a   Petersen, R F ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Cryptosporidium; Livestock; Molecular epidemiology; Zoonoses

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASE; CLASSIFICATION; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; DENMARK; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; FORECASTING; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MAMMAL; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PARASITOLOGY; PREVALENCE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SWINE DISEASE; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMAL DISEASES; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; DENMARK; DIARRHEA; DNA, PROTOZOAN; FEMALE; FORECASTING; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; MAMMALS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PREVALENCE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SWINE DISEASES; ZOONOSES;

CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; PROTOZOA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 31944440174     PISSN: 00482951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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