Heavy cryptosporidial infections in children in northeast Brazil: comparison of Cryptosporidium hominis and Cryptosporidium parvum

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 101, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 378-384

  Bushen, Oluma Y ^a   Kohli, Anita ^a   Pinkerton, Relana C ^a   Dupnik, Kate ^a   Newman, Robert D ^b   Sears, Cynthia L ^c   Fayer, Ronald ^d   Lima, Aldo A M ^a,e   Guerrant, Richard L ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^e Institute of Biomedicine   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Brazil; Cryptosporidium; Diarrhoea; Genotype; Lactoferrin; Protozoan infections

Indexed keywords

LACTOFERRIN;

AGE; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BRAZIL; CHILD GROWTH; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM HOMINIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; DIARRHEA; FECES ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OOCYST; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE ISOLATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCORING SYSTEM; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ANIMALS; ANTHROPOMETRY; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; DIARRHEA, INFANTILE; FECES; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; HUMANS; INFANT; LACTOFERRIN; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; URBAN HEALTH;

CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM HOMINIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; PROTOZOA;

EID: 33846846412     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trstmh.2006.06.005     Document Type: Article

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