Cryptosporidium, Giardia and Enterocytozoon bieneusi in cats from Bogota (Colombia) and genotyping of isolates

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 141, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 334-339

  Santín, Mónica ^a   Trout, James M ^a   Vecino, Jesús A Cortés ^b   Dubey, J P ^a   Fayer, Ronald ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Cats; Cryptosporidium; Enterocytozoon bieneusi; Genotypes; Giardia; PCR

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAT; COLOMBIA; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; ENTEROCYTOZOON; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; GIARDIA; GIARDIA DUODENALIS; ILEUM MUCOSA; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PERU; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CAT DISEASES; CATS; COLOMBIA; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, PROTOZOAN; ENTEROCYTOZOON; FECES; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENOTYPE; GIARDIA; GIARDIASIS; MALE; MICROSPORIDIOSIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM FELIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM MURIS; ENTEROCYTOZOON BIENEUSI; GIARDIA; GIARDIA INTESTINALIS;

EID: 33749664245     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2006.06.004     Document Type: Article

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