New view on the age-specificity of pig Cryptosporidium by species-specific primers for distinguishing Cryptosporidium suis and Cryptosporidium pig genotype II

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 176, Issue 2-3, 2011, Pages 120-125

  Jeníková, Martina ^a   Němejc, Karel ^a   Sak, Bohumil ^b   Květoňová, Dana ^a   Kváč, Martin ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF PARASITOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Age specificity; Cryptosporidium pig genotype II; Cryptosporidium suis; Mixed infection; Species specific primers

Indexed keywords

RNA 18S;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AMPLICON; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM SUIS; FEMALE; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; GENOTYPE; HOST SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMAN; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MIXED INFECTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RNA SEQUENCE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANIMALS; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; GENOTYPE; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES;

ANIMALIA; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM SUIS; SUIDAE;

EID: 79952040950     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2010.11.010     Document Type: Article

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