Detection and genotyping of Cryptosporidium from brown rats (Rattus norvegicus) captured in an urban area of Japan

Parasitology Research

Volumn 100, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1417-1420

  Kimura, Akio ^a   Edagawa, Akiko ^a   Okada, Kunihiro ^b   Takimoto, Atsutoshi ^b   Yonesho, Shizuo ^b   Karanis, Panagiotis ^c,d  

^a OSAKA PREFECTURAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Japan)

^b Nishinomiya City Office   (Japan)

^c OBIHIRO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; RIBOSOME RNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM HOMINIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; DNA EXTRACTION; FECES ANALYSIS; GENE CLUSTER; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; JAPAN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOAL GENETICS; RAT; URBAN AREA;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; BASE SEQUENCE; CITIES; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; FECES; JAPAN; PHYLOGENY; PREVALENCE; RATS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S;

ANIMALIA; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM HOMINIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 33947383384     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-007-0488-9     Document Type: Article

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