Molecular characterisation of Cryptosporidium outbreaks in Western and South Australia

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 125, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 325-328

  Ng, Josephine S Y ^a   Pingault, Nevada ^b   Gibbs, Robyn ^b   Koehler, Ann ^c   Ryan, Una ^a  

^a MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (Australia)

^c NONE   (Australia)

Author keywords

18S rRNA; Cryptosporidium; Glycoprotein; Gp60; Outbreak; South Australia; Western Australia

Indexed keywords

GLYCOPROTEIN; GLYCOPROTEIN GP 60; RNA 18S; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM HOMINIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; EPIDEMIC; FECES; FEMALE; GENE LOCUS; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOLECULAR TYPING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE ISOLATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; FECES; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOUTH AUSTRALIA; WESTERN AUSTRALIA; YOUNG ADULT;

CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM HOMINIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM;

EID: 77953026499     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: 10902449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2010.02.012     Document Type: Article

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