Giardia assemblage A: Human genotype in muskoxen in the Canadian Arctic

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Kutz, Susan J ^a   Thompson, Rc Andrew ^b   Polley, Lydden ^c   Kandola, Kami ^d   Nagy, John ^e   Wielinga, Caroline M ^b   Elkin, Brett T ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^d Stanton Territorial Health Authority   (Canada)

^e DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CANADA; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; FECES ANALYSIS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME; GENOTYPE; GIARDIA DUODENALIS; GIARDIA DUODENALIS ASSEMBLAGE A; MUSKOXEN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; UNGULATE;

CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; GIARDIA; OVIBOS; UNGULATA;

EID: 58149460063     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-1-32     Document Type: Article

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