Maximizing recovery and detection of Cryptosporidium parvum oocysts from spiked eastern oyster (Crassostrea virginica) tissue samples

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 73, Issue 21, 2007, Pages 6910-6915

  Downey, Autumn S ^a   Graczyk, Thaddeus K ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODIES; DISEASES; FISH; PROTOZOA; RISK ASSESSMENT;

CRASSOSTREA VIRGINICA; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; OOCYTES; PARASITES;

TISSUE CULTURE;

BIVALVE; DETECTION METHOD; FOOD CONSUMPTION; FOOD SAFETY; HEALTH RISK; PARASITE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTIST; SHELLFISH; WATER QUALITY;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; EXTRACTION; HEALTH HAZARD; HEMOLYMPH; HOMOGENATE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; IMMUNOMAGNETIC SEPARATION; MEAT; MICROORGANISM DETECTION; NONHUMAN; OOCYST; OYSTER; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SHELLFISH; TISSUE HOMOGENATE; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER QUALITY;

ANIMALS; CRASSOSTREA; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; IMMUNOMAGNETIC SEPARATION; OOCYSTS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SHELLFISH;

CRASSOSTREA VIRGINICA; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; OSTREIDAE;

EID: 35948990874     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01027-07     Document Type: Article

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