Large-scale survey of Cryptosporidium spp. in chickens and Pekin ducks (Anas platyrhynchos) in Henan, China: Prevalence and molecular characterization

Avian Pathology

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 447-451

  Wang, Rongjun ^a   Jian, Fuchun ^a   Sun, Yanping ^a   Hu, Qunshan ^a   Zhu, Jingjing ^a   Wang, Fang ^a   Ning, Changshen ^a   Zhang, Longxian ^a,b   Xiao, Lihua ^b  

^a HENAN AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BIRD DISEASE; CHEMISTRY; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHICKEN; CHINA; CLASSIFICATION; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; DUCK; FEMALE; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RNA GENE; SMALL RIBOSOMAL SUBUNIT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHICKENS; CHINA; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; DUCKS; FEMALE; GENES, RRNA; GENOTYPE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; POULTRY DISEASES; PREVALENCE; RIBOSOME SUBUNITS, SMALL, EUKARYOTIC; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ANAS; ANAS PLATYRHYNCHOS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM BAILEYI; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM MELEAGRIDIS; GALLUS GALLUS;

EID: 78650115033     PISSN: 03079457     EISSN: 14653338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03079457.2010.518314     Document Type: Article

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