An outbreak of cryptosporidiosis among alpaca crias and their human caregivers

Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association

Volumn 231, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1562-1567

  Starkey, Simon R ^a   Johnson, Amy L ^a   Ziegler, Peter E ^a   Mohammed, Hussni O ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARTICLE; ARTIODACTYLA; CASE REPORT; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; FECES; FEMALE; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; CAMELIDS, NEW WORLD; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FECES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; POPULATION DENSITY; ZOONOSES;

CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; LAMA PACOS;

EID: 37349101950     PISSN: 00031488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2460/javma.231.10.1562     Document Type: Article

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