Adaptation of Cryptosporidium oocysts to different excystation conditions

Parasitology

Volumn 134, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1583-1588

  Widmer, G ^a   Klein, P ^b   Bonilla, R ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF ANIMAL SCIENCE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Cryptosporidium spp.; Gastro intestinal tract; Oocyst excystation; Sporozoites

Indexed keywords

TAUROCHOLIC ACID;

ACIDITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM MURIS; ENDOPARASITE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; INTESTINE PARASITE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYST; PARASITOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPOROZOITE; STOMACH; TEMPERATURE ACCLIMATIZATION;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; INTESTINES; MICE; OOCYSTS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STOMACH; TAUROCHOLIC ACID; TEMPERATURE;

CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM ANDERSONI; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM HOMINIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM MURIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM;

EID: 36649020010     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: 14698161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182007002922     Document Type: Article

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