Genetic characterizations of Cryptosporidium spp. and Giardia duodenalis in humans in Henan, China

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 127, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 42-45

  Wang, Rongjun ^a   Zhang, Xiaosan ^a   Zhu, Huili ^a   Zhang, Longxian ^a,b,c   Feng, Yaoyu ^d   Jian, Fuchun ^a   Ning, Changshen ^a   Qi, Meng ^a   Zhou, Yang ^a   Fu, Kanda ^e   Wang, Yaqiang ^e   Sun, Yanru ^a   Wang, Qiang ^a   Xiao, Lihua ^c  

^a HENAN AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ATLANTA RESEARCH AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION   (United States)

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

^d EAST CHINA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^e HENAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Assemblage A; Assemblage B; Cryptosporidium; Cryptosporidium hominis; Genotyping; Giardia duodenalis; Humans; Subtyping

Indexed keywords

GLYCOPROTEIN; SMALL SUBUNIT RIBOSOMAL RNA; TRIOSEPHOSPHATE ISOMERASE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHINA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM FELIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM HOMINIS; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; GIARDIA DUODENALIS; GIARDIASIS; HUMAN; MALE; MOLECULAR TYPING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOAL GENETICS; SCHOOL CHILD;

ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHINA; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; DIARRHEA; DNA, PROTOZOAN; FECES; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; GIARDIA; GIARDIASIS; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM FELIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM HOMINIS; GIARDIA; GIARDIA INTESTINALIS;

EID: 78650535015     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: 10902449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2010.06.034     Document Type: Article

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