An evaluation of primers amplifying DNA targets for the detection of Cryptosporidium spp. using C. parvum HNJ-1 Japanese isolate in water samples

Parasitology Research

Volumn 101, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 951-962

  Leetz, Anna Susanne ^a   Sotiriadou, Isaia ^a   Ongerth, Jerry ^b   Karanis, Panagiotis ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA TUBULIN; COWP PROTEIN; GENOMIC DNA; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; PROTEIN; SMALL SUBUNIT RIBOSOMAL RNA; SUCROSE; TRAP C1 PROTEIN; TRAP C2 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; COMBINED IMMUNODEFICIENCY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; DILUTION; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA ISOLATION; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FLOTATION; GENE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE TARGETING; GENOTYPE; HNJ 1 GENE; HUMAN; IMMUNOMAGNETIC SEPARATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; WATER SAMPLING;

ANIMALS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; FECES; HUMANS; IMMUNOMAGNETIC SEPARATION; MICE; MICE, SCID; OOCYSTS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; WATER;

CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; MUS;

EID: 34547780062     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-007-0567-y     Document Type: Article

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