Molecular and epidemiological investigations of cryptosporidiosis in Cuban children

Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology

Volumn 102, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 659-669

  Pelayo, L ^a   Nunez F A ^a   Rojas, L ^a   Wilke, H ^b   Furuseth Hansen, E ^c   Mulder, B ^b   Gjerde, B ^c   Robertson, L ^c  

^a INSTITUTO DE MEDICINA TROPICAL PEDRO KOURÍ   (Cuba)

^b Laboratory of Medical Microbiology Twente Achterhoek   (Netherlands)

^c NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATERNAL ANTIBODY;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ARTICLE; BREAST FEEDING; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; CENTRAL AMERICA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM HOMINIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; CUBA; DIARRHEA; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; GENE; GENE LOCUS; GENOTYPE; GP60 GENE; HUMAN; IMMUNITY; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SCHOOL CHILD; SOUTH AMERICA; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; VOMITING;

ANIMALS; ANOREXIA; BASE SEQUENCE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CUBA; DIARRHEA; FECES; FEMALE; GENES, PROTOZOAN; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OOCYSTS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S;

CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM HOMINIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM;

EID: 57149112008     PISSN: 00034983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/136485908X355265     Document Type: Article

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