Molecular characterization of Giardia isolates from calves and humans in a region in which dairy farming has recently intensified

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 74, Issue 16, 2008, Pages 5100-5105

  Winkworth, Cynthia L ^a   Learmonth, James J ^b   Matthaei, Christoph D ^a   Townsend, Colin R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); FARM BUILDINGS; FOOD PRODUCTS PLANTS; LAND USE;

DAIRY FARMING; DUODENALIS; GIARDIA; HUMAN INFECTIONS; MOLECULAR CHARACTERIZATION; NEW ZEALAND;

WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

CATTLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DAIRY FARMING; GENOTYPE; HOMINID; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTION; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PROTOZOAN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CATTLE; DAIRYING; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENOTYPE; GIARDIA; GIARDIA DOUDENALIS; GIARDIASIS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NEW ZEALAND; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; DAIRYING; DNA, PROTOZOAN; FECES; GENOTYPE; GIARDIA; GIARDIASIS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEW ZEALAND; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

AUSTRALASIA; NEW ZEALAND; SOUTH ISLAND;

BOS; BOS TAURUS; GIARDIA; GIARDIA INTESTINALIS;

EID: 50049129979     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00232-08     Document Type: Article

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