Cryptosporidium muris in a Reticulated Giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis reticulata)

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 96, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 211-212

  Kodadkova A ^a   Kvac M ^a   Ditrich, O ^b   Sak, B ^b   Xiao, L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF PARASITOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SMALL SUBUNIT RIBOSOMAL RNA;

CAPTIVE POPULATION; FECAL PELLET; INFECTIVITY; INTRODUCED SPECIES; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PROTOZOAN; RUMINANT; SMALL MAMMAL; ZOO;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ARTIODACTYLA; CAMEL; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM MURIS; CZECH REPUBLIC; EXPERIMENTAL INFECTION; FECES ANALYSIS; GIRAFFA CAMELOPARDALIS; HYRAX; MAMMAL; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYST; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE ISOLATION; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PERISSODACTYLA; RNA SEQUENCE; RODENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; WILD ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ANIMALS, ZOO; ARTIODACTYLA; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CZECH REPUBLIC; DNA, PROTOZOAN; FECES; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; RNA, RIBOSOMAL;

CZECH REPUBLIC;

ARTIODACTYLA; CAMELUS BACTRIANUS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM MURIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM SP.; GIRAFFA CAMELOPARDALIS; GIRAFFIDAE; MAMMALIA; MUS; PERISSODACTYLA; PROCAVIA CAPENSIS; RODENTIA;

EID: 77950447581     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/GE-2212.1     Document Type: Article

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