Genotyping of Cryptosporidium spp. from free-living wild birds from Brazil

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 175, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 27-32

  Sevá, Anaiá da Paixão ^a   Funada, Mikaela Renata ^b   Richtzenhain, Leonardo ^a   Guimarães, Marta Brito ^a   Souza, Sheila de Oliveira ^a   Allegretti, Luciana ^a   Sinhorini, Juliana Anaya ^a   Duarte, Vanessa Vertematti ^c   Soares, Rodrigo Martins ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b Laboratório de Virologia   (Brazil)

^c Médica Veterinária Autônoma ^*  (Brazil)

Author keywords

18S rDNA; Birds; Cryptosporidium spp.; Molecular characterization; Sequencing; Wildlife

Indexed keywords

DNA 18S;

ARTICLE; BIRD; BRAZIL; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM BAILEYI; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM GALLI; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM MELEAGRIDIS; FECES ANALYSIS; FINCH; GENOTYPE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYST; PARAKEET; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PSITTACINE; WILD SPECIES;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; BIRD DISEASES; BIRDS; BRAZIL; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; GENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY;

ARATINGA; AVES; CARDINALIDAE; CARDUELIS CARDUELIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM BAILEYI; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM GALLI; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM MELEAGRIDIS; EMBERIZINAE; ICTERIDAE; PAROARIA DOMINICANA; PSITTACIDAE; RAMPHASTIDAE; SALTATOR SIMILIS; SICALIS; SICALIS FLAVEOLA; SPOROPHILA FRONTALIS; SPOROPHILA SCHISTACEA; TURDIDAE; TURDUS RUFIVENTRIS;

EID: 78649482420     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2010.09.031     Document Type: Article

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