Cryptosporidium species causing acute diarrhoea in children in Antananarivo, Madagascar

Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology

Volumn 102, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 309-315

  Areeshi, M ^a   Dove, W ^a   Papaventsis, D ^a   Gatei, W ^a   Combe, P ^b   Grosjean, P ^b   Leatherbarrow, H ^a   Hart, C A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUT PASTEUR DE MADAGASCAR   (Madagascar)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM HOMINIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HUMAN; INFANT; MADAGASCAR; MALE; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; NEWBORN; PATHOGENESIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

ANIMALS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; DIARRHEA; FECES; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MADAGASCAR; MALE; SEASONS;

CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM HOMINIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM;

EID: 45849138976     PISSN: 00034983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/136485908X278793     Document Type: Article

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