Cryptosporidium genotypes and subtypes in dairy calves in Egypt

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 169, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 382-386

  Amer, Said ^a,b   Honma, Hajime ^a   Ikarashi, Makoto ^a   Tada, Chika ^a   Fukuda, Yasuhiro ^a   Suyama, Yoshihisa ^a   Nakai, Yutaka ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Kafrelsheikh University   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Calves; Cryptosporidiosis; Cryptosporidium; Egypt; Genotype subtype

Indexed keywords

CELL MEMBRANE PROTEIN; GLYCOPROTEIN; RIBOSOME DNA; SMALL SUBUNIT RIBOSOMAL RNA;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CATTLE DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; DAIRY CATTLE; EGYPT; EVOLUTIONARY HOMOLOGY; FECES ANALYSIS; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYST; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE ISOLATION; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; DAIRYING; EGYPT; FECES; GENOTYPE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY;

BOS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM ANDERSONI; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM;

EID: 77951252551     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2010.01.017     Document Type: Article

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