Cryptosporidium and Giardia spp. infections in humans, animals and the environment in Poland

Parasitology Research

Volumn 104, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-17

  Bajer, Anna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; DIARRHEA; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; FARM ANIMAL; FOOD CONTAMINATION; GENOTYPE; GIARDIA; GIARDIASIS; HOST; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; INFECTION RISK; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PARASITE VECTOR; PET ANIMAL; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER SAMPLING; WILDLIFE; ZOONOSIS;

ADULT; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; ANIMALS, WILD; CATS; CATTLE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; DOGS; ENVIRONMENT; GIARDIA; GIARDIASIS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTESTINAL DISEASES, PARASITIC; POLAND;

ANIMALIA; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; GIARDIA; MAMMALIA; PROTOZOA;

EID: 51349133555     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-008-1179-x     Document Type: Review

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