The prevalence of cryptosporidiosis in Turkish children, and genotyping of isolates by nested polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorphism

Saudi Medical Journal

Volumn 28, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1243-1246

  Tamer, Gulden S ^a   Turk, Meral ^b   Dagci, Hande ^c   Pektas, Bayram ^c   Guy, Edward C ^d   Guruz, Adnan Y ^c   Uner, Ahmet ^c  

^a KOCAELI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b ATATURK TRAINING AND RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

^c EGE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^d SINGLETON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALE; OOCYST; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY SCHOOL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SCHOOL CHILD; STAINING; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); UNIVERSITY; ZOONOSIS; ANIMAL; CHILD; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMALS; CHILD; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; PREVALENCE; TURKEY;

EID: 35848952092     PISSN: 03795284     EISSN: 16583175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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