Observations on Cryptosporidium life cycle stages during excystation

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 94, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 298-300

  Karanis, Panagiotis ^a   Kimura, Akio ^b   Nagasawa, Hideyuki ^c   Igarashi, Ikuo ^c   Suzuki, Naoyoshi ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b OSAKA PREFECTURAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Japan)

^c OBIHIRO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYST; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; LARVA; LIFE CYCLE; MORPHOLOGY; PROTOZOAN;

ARTICLE; BLEACHING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; GENOTYPE; IN VITRO STUDY; INCUBATION TIME; LIFE CYCLE; MEROZOITE; NONHUMAN; OOCYST; PARASITE EXAMINATION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

ADULT; ANIMALS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; MICE; MICE, SCID; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL;

CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM;

EID: 40949099137     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/GE-1185.1     Document Type: Article

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