Quantification of in vitro and in vivo Cryptosporidium parvum infection by using real-time PCR

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 72, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 4484-4488

  Godiwala, Nihal T ^a   Vandewalle, Alain ^b,c   Ward, Honorine D ^a   Leav, Brett A ^a  

^a TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b CENTRE DE RECHERCHE BIOMÉDICALE BICHAT BEAUJON CRB3   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; MEDICAL PROBLEMS; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; TISSUE;

CRYPTOSPORIDIUM INFECTION; PARASITE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION (PCR); QUANTITATIVE REAL-TIME PCR (QPCR);

MICROBIOLOGY;

BIOASSAY; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; PARASITE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME; VIRAL DISEASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL WARFARE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INFECTIOUS DIARRHEA; INTESTINE EPITHELIUM CELL; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IMMUNITY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANIMALS; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; HUMANS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS;

CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM;

EID: 33745142173     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00189-06     Document Type: Article

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