Prevalence of Cryptosporidium species in wildlife populations within a watershed landscape in southeastern New York State

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 147, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 176-184

  Ziegler, Peter E ^a   Wade, Susan E ^a   Schaaf, Stephanie L ^a   Stern, David A ^b   Nadareski, Christopher A ^b   Mohammed, Hussni O ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Cryptosporidium; Prevalence; Risk; Rodents; Watershed; Wildlife

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; ALOSA PSEUDOHARENGUS; AMPHIBIA; ARTICLE; BIRD; BLARINA BREVICAUDA; CLETHRIONOMYS GAPPERI; COYOTE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; ERETHIZON DORSATUM; FECES; FEMALE; FISH; LAND USE; LANDSCAPE; LARUS DELAWARENSIS; LYNX RUFUS; MALE; MAMMAL; MARMOTA MONAX; MICROORGANISM DETECTION; MICROTUS PENNSYLVANICUS; MUSTELA ERMINEA; MUSTELA VISON; MYOTIS LUCIFUGUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASCALOPS BREWERI; PARASITE; PARASITOSIS; PEROMYSCUS; POPULATION; PREVALENCE; REPTILE; SAMPLING; SEASON; SEX; SOREX CINEREUS; SPECIES; SPRING; TAMIASCIURUS HUDSONICUS; UNITED STATES; WATERSHED; WILDLIFE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; ECOSYSTEM; FECES; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEW YORK; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; VERTEBRATES;

ALOSA PSEUDOHARENGUS; AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; AVES; BLARINA BREVICAUDA; CANIS LATRANS; CLETHRIONOMYS GAPPERI; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; ERETHIZON DORSATUM; LARUS DELAWARENSIS; LYNX RUFUS; MAMMALIA; MARMOTA MONAX; MICROTUS PENNSYLVANICUS; MUSTELA ERMINEA; MUSTELA VISON; MYOTIS LUCIFUGUS; PARASCALOPS BREWERI; PEROMYSCUS MANICULATUS; REPTILIA; RODENTIA; SOREX CINEREUS; TAMIASCIURUS HUDSONICUS;

EID: 34248637013     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2007.03.024     Document Type: Article

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