Persistent infection in a dairy herd with an unusual genotype of bovine Cryptosporidium parvum

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 254, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 71-74

  Björkman, Camilla ^a   Mattsson, Jens G ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

18S rRNA; Bovine infection; Cryptosporidium oocyst wall protein (COWP); Cryptosporidium parvum; Microsatellites; Persistence

Indexed keywords

CELL MEMBRANE PROTEIN; RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASE; MICROSATELLITE DNA; OOCYST WALL PROTEIN, CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN;

ALLELE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARTICLE; CATTLE; COW; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; DAIRY CATTLE; DIARRHEA; ENZYME METABOLISM; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; HERD; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYTE; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; ANIMAL; CATTLE DISEASE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLASSIFICATION; DAIRYING; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; POINT MUTATION; TIME;

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS; BOVINAE; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; CHRONIC DISEASE; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; DAIRYING; GENOTYPE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POINT MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33645071555     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2005.00021.x     Document Type: Article

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