Longitudinal multi-locus molecular characterisation of sporadic Australian human clinical cases of cryptosporidiosis from 2005 to 2008

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 125, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 348-356

  Ng, Josephine ^a   MacKenzie, Brian ^b   Ryan, Una ^a  

^a MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b PATHWEST LABORATORY MEDICINE   (Australia)

Author keywords

18S rRNA; Australia; Cryptosporidiosis; Cryptosporidium; Gp60; Humans; Longitudinal survey; Multilocus sequence typing

Indexed keywords

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

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTHROPOLOGY; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM HOMINIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM MELEAGRIDIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FECES; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE ISOLATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUSTRALIA; BASE SEQUENCE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; DNA, PROTOZOAN; FECES; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INFANT; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; YOUNG ADULT;

CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM HOMINIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM MELEAGRIDIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM;

EID: 77953027609     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: 10902449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2010.02.017     Document Type: Article

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