Molecular characterization of Cryptosporidium isolates from humans in Ethiopia

Acta Tropica

Volumn 115, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 77-83

  Adamu, Haileeyesus ^a   Petros, Beyene ^a   Hailu, Asrat ^a   Petry, Franz ^b  

^a ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER MAINZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cryptosporidium; Epidemiology; Ethiopia; Genotyping; Sequencing

Indexed keywords

CRYPTOSPORIDIUM OOCYST WALL PROTEIN; PROTOZOAL DNA; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; SMALL SUBUNIT RIBOSOMAL RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

DEVELOPING WORLD; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DNA; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENOTYPE; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PARASITIC DISEASE; RNA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM HOMINIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DIARRHEA; DNA EXTRACTION; ETHIOPIA; FECES CULTURE; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; OOCYST; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE ISOLATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTOZOAL GENETICS; STAINING; ZIEHL NEELSON STAINING; ZOONOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; DIARRHEA; DNA, PROTOZOAN; ETHIOPIA; FECES; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MIDDLE AGED; PARASITOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

ETHIOPIA;

CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM HOMINIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM;

EID: 77953027754     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2010.02.003     Document Type: Article

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