A hundred-year retrospective on cryptosporidiosis

Trends in Parasitology

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 184-189

  Tzipori, Saul ^a   Widmer, Giovanni ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; DIARRHEA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INTESTINE INFECTION; NONHUMAN; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PROTOZOAL GENETICS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; VERTEBRATE; WATER CONTAMINATION;

ANIMALS; ANTIPROTOZOAL AGENTS; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; DIARRHEA; GENOME, PROTOZOAN; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; WATER;

ANIMALIA; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 41349095865     PISSN: 14714922     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pt.2008.01.002     Document Type: Review

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