Update on Cyclospora cayetanensis, a food-borne and waterborne parasite

Clinical Microbiology Reviews

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 218-234

  Ortega, Ynés R ^a   Sanchez, Roxana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AZITHROMYCIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DILOXANIDE FUROATE; MEPACRINE; NALIDIXIC ACID; NITAZOXANIDE; NORFLOXACIN; PLACEBO; TINIDAZOLE; WATER;

CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CYCLOSPORA CAYETANENSIS; CYCLOSPORIASIS; ENVIRONMENT; FOOD; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HISTORY; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; LIFE CYCLE; MICROBIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PARASITE VIABILITY; POPULATION; PREVALENCE; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SAMPLE; TAXONOMY;

ANIMALS; CANADA; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; CYCLOSPORA; CYCLOSPORIASIS; DIARRHEA; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; FOODBORNE DISEASES; HUMANS; TRAVEL; UNITED STATES; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

CYCLOSPORA CAYETANENSIS;

EID: 74249114186     PISSN: 08938512     EISSN: 10986618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CMR.00026-09     Document Type: Review

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