The role of aquatic birds in the environmental dissemination of human pathogenic Giardia duodenalis cysts and Cryptosporidium oocysts in Hungary

Parasitology International

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 227-231

  Plutzer, Judit ^a   Tomor, Barbara ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Aquatic birds; Cryptosporidium; Giardia; Human pathogen

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; FECES ANALYSIS; GIARDIA DUODENALIS; HUNGARY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYST; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BIRD DISEASES; BIRDS; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DUCKS; FECES; GEESE; GIARDIA; GIARDIASIS; HUMANS; HUNGARY; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OOCYSTS; PREVALENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ANAS; ANSER; ANSER ANSER; ANSER FABALIS; AVES; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM SP.; FULICA ATRA; GIARDIA; GIARDIA INTESTINALIS; GIARDIA SP.;

EID: 67650450176     PISSN: 13835769     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.parint.2009.05.004     Document Type: Article

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