Cryptosporidiosis and its potential risk factors in children and calves in Babol, North of Iran

Tropical Biomedicine

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 125-131

  Ranjbar Bahadori, Sh ^a   Sangsefidi, H ^a   Shemshadi, B ^a   Kashefinejad, M ^a  

^a ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASE; CHILD; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; FECES; HUMAN; INFANT; IRAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROSCOPY; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; RECTUM; RISK FACTOR; RURAL POPULATION; URBAN POPULATION;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; FECES; HUMANS; INFANT; IRAN; MICROSCOPY; PARASITOLOGY; PREVALENCE; RECTUM; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 79953883471     PISSN: 01275720     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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