Host-shaped segregation of the Cryptosporidium parvum multilocus genotype repertoire

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 136, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 273-278

  Grinberg, A ^a   Lopez Villalobos, N ^a   Pomroy, W ^a   Widmer, G ^b   Smith, H ^c   Tait, A ^d  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c STOBHILL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; DAIRY CATTLE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GENE LOCUS; HYPOTHESIS; INFECTION RATE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; DNA, PROTOZOAN; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; SCOTLAND; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 38049161396     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268807008345     Document Type: Article

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