Molecular characterization of Cryptosporidium spp. from HIV infected patients from an urban area of Brazil

Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 341-343

  De Lucca, Patrícia ^a   De Gaspari, Elizabeth Natal ^b   Bozzoli, Lígia M ^b   Funada, Mikaela Renata ^a   Silva, Sheila Oliveira De Souza ^a   Iuliano, Wilma ^c   Soares, Rodrigo Martins ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO ADOLFO LUTZ   (Brazil)

^c Emilio Ribas Infectious Diseases Institute   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Brazil; Cryptosporidium spp.; HIV; Human; Molecular characterization; Zoonosis

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; SMALL SUBUNIT RIBOSOMAL RNA; PROTOZOAL RNA; RIBOSOME RNA;

ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM CANIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM FELIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM HOMINIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; FECES ANALYSIS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; INFECTION RATE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYST; PARASITE ISOLATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTOZOAL GENETICS; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; URBAN AREA; ANIMAL; CAT; CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DOG; FECES; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PARASITOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CATS; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; DOGS; FECES; GENOTYPE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, PROTOZOAN; RNA, RIBOSOMAL;

EID: 77951244848     PISSN: 00364665     EISSN: 16789946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0036-46652009000600007     Document Type: Article

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