Infectivity, pathogenicity, and genetic characteristics of mammalian gastric Cryptosporidium spp. in domestic ruminants

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 153, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 363-367

  Kváč, Martin ^a,b   Sak, Bohumil ^a   Květoňová, Dana ^a   Ditrich, Oleg ^a,b   Hofmannová, Lada ^c   Modrý, David ^a,c   Vítovec, Jiří ^b   Xiao, Lihua ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF PARASITOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY AND PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES   (Czech Republic)

^d NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

18S rRNA gene; Cryptosporidium andersoni; Cryptosporidium muris; Gastric Cryptosporidium; Genotyping; Infectivity; Pathogenicity; Ruminants

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BOVIDS; CALF (BOVINE); CAMEL; CATTLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC TRAIT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; KID (GOAT); LAMB; MAMMAL; METAPLASIA; MOLE RAT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE ISOLATION; PATHOGENICITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STOMACH; STOMACH GLAND;

ABOMASUM; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CATTLE; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; GASTRIC MUCOSA; GENOTYPE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; PARASITE EGG COUNT; RATS; RNA, PROTOZOAN; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; RUMINANTS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VARIATION (GENETICS);

ANIMALIA; BOS; CAMELUS BACTRIANUS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM ANDERSONI; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM MURIS; MAMMALIA; OVIS ARIES; RATTUS NORVEGICUS; TACHYORYCTES SPLENDENS;

EID: 42449083636     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2008.01.033     Document Type: Article

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