Cryptosporidium genotypes in wildlife from a New York watershed

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 73, Issue 20, 2007, Pages 6475-6483

  Feng, Yaoyu ^a,d   Alderisio, Kerri A ^b   Yang, Wenli ^a   Blancero, Lisa A ^b   Kuhne, William G ^b   Nadareski, Christopher A ^b   Reid, Michael ^b   Xiao, Lihua ^a,c  

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

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

^c NATL CENTER FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^d CHINESE CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASES; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MICROBIOLOGY; POTABLE WATER; WATERSHEDS;

CERVINE GENOTYPE; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM GENOTYPES; GENOTYPES;

PROTOZOA;

DRINKING WATER; RIBOSOME RNA; RUNOFF; STORM WATER;

DRINKING WATER; GENOTYPE; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; PROTOZOAN; RUNOFF; STORMWATER; WATER SUPPLY; WATERSHED;

ARTICLE; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; DNA SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; UNITED STATES; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER SUPPLY; WATERSHED; WILDLIFE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; BASE SEQUENCE; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; FRESH WATER; GENOTYPE; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEW YORK CITY; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

NEW YORK [UNITED STATES]; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; CERVIDAE; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM;

EID: 35448935976     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01034-07     Document Type: Article

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