Cryptosporidium spp. in wild, laboratory, and pet rodents in China: Prevalence and molecular characterization

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 75, Issue 24, 2009, Pages 7692-7699

  Lv, Chaochao ^a   Zhang, Longxian ^a   Wang, Rongjun ^a   Jian, Fuchun ^a   Zhang, Sumei ^a   Ning, Changshen ^a   Wang, Helei ^a   Feng, Chao ^a   Wang, Xinwei ^a   Ren, Xupeng ^a   Qi, Meng ^a   Xiao, Lihua ^b  

^a HENAN AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM OOCYSTS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM SPP; MOLECULAR CHARACTERIZATION; NETHERLANDS; POTENTIAL RESERVOIR; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SMALL SUBUNITS;

FLOTATION; RNA; SUGAR (SUCROSE);

MAMMALS;

DISEASE PREVALENCE; GENE; GENOTYPE; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN; PROTOZOAN; RNA; RODENT;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; CATTLE; CHINA; CRICETINAE; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; HUMANS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RATS; RODENT DISEASES; RODENTIA;

CHINA; NETHERLANDS; SPAIN;

CRICETINAE; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM ANDERSONI; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM MURIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM WRAIRI; MUSTELA; OVIS ARIES; PHODOPUS CAMPBELLI; PHODOPUS SUNGORUS; RATTUS; RATTUS TANEZUMI; RODENTIA; TAMIAS SIBIRICUS;

EID: 73249119488     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01386-09     Document Type: Article

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