Cryptosporidium sp. rabbit genotype, a newly identified human pathogen

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 829-830

  Chalmers, Rachel M ^a,e   Robinson, Guy ^a   Elwin, Kristin ^a   Hadfield, Stephen J ^a   Xiao, Lihua ^b   Ryan, Una ^c   Modha, Deborah ^d   Mallaghan, Catherine ^d  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH WALES   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^c MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^e SINGLETON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRINKING WATER;

CLINICAL ARTICLE; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM HOMINIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EPIDEMIC; FECES ANALYSIS; FLUID INTAKE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; LETTER; MICROORGANISM DETECTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYST; RABBIT; WATER TREATMENT;

ANIMALS; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; DIARRHEA; DNA, PROTOZOAN; ENGLAND; FECES; FRESH WATER; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RABBITS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; WATER PURIFICATION; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 66149150969     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1505.081419     Document Type: Letter

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