Cryptosporidium species: Preliminary descriptions of the prevalence and genotype distribution among school children and hospital patients in the Venda region, Limpopo Province, South Africa

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 114, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 314-322

  Samie, A ^a,b   Bessong, P O ^a   Obi, C L ^a   Sevilleja, J E A D ^b,c   Stroup, S ^b   Houpt, E ^b   Guerrant, R L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VENDA   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES MANILA   (Philippines)

Author keywords

Cryptosporidium hominis; Cryptosporidium parvum; Diarrhea; Epidemiology; HIV; Human immunodeficiency virus; Limpopo; PCR; Polymerase chain reaction; Protozoa; qPCR; Real time PCR; Restriction fragment length polymorphism; RFLP; South Africa; Venda

Indexed keywords

LACTOFERRIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM HOMINIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; DIARRHEA; DNA POLYMORPHISM; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; GROUPS BY AGE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFLAMMATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY SCHOOL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SAMPLING; SCREENING; SOUTH AFRICA; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; FECES; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HIV INFECTIONS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INFANT; LACTOFERRIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; SCHOOLS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SOUTH AFRICA;

CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM HOMINIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; PROTOZOA;

EID: 33750341115     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: 10902449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2006.04.007     Document Type: Article

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