Prevalence of Cryptosporidium baileyi in ostriches (Struthio camelus) in Zhengzhou, China

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 175, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 151-154

  Wang, Rongjun ^a   Qi, Meng ^a   Jingjing, Zhu ^a   Sun, Dong ^b   Ning, Changshen ^a   Zhao, Jinfeng ^a   Zhang, Longxian ^a   Xiao, Lihua ^c  

^a HENAN AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Kaifeng Center for Disease Control and Prevention   (China)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

C. baileyi; Chickens; Cross transmission; Cryptosporidium; Ostriches; Quails

Indexed keywords

SMALL SUBUNIT RIBOSOMAL RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHICKEN; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM BAILEYI; DNA SEQUENCE; FECES ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYST; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUAIL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; STRUTHIO CAMELUS;

ANIMALS; BIRD DISEASES; CHINA; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; FECES; OOCYSTS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; STRUTHIONIFORMES;

ANIMALIA; AVES; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM BAILEYI; GALLUS GALLUS; STRUTHIO CAMELUS; STRUTHIONIFORMES;

EID: 78649466004     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2010.10.005     Document Type: Article

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