Sporadic Cryptosporidium infection in Nigerian children: Risk factors with species identification

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 139, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 946-954

  Molloy, S F ^a   Tanner, C J ^a   Kirwan, P ^a   Asaolu, S O ^b   Smith, H V ^c   Nichols, R A B ^c   Connelly, L ^c   Holland, C V ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b NHS GREATER GLASGOW AND CLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^c OBAFEMI AWOLOWO UNIVERSITY   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Cryptosporidium; epidemiology; infectious disease epidemiology; molecular epidemiology; parasitic disease epidemiology and control

Indexed keywords

GLYCOPROTEIN; GLYCOPROTEIN 60; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGE; ARTICLE; ASCARIASIS; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM HOMINIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; MALARIA; MALE; NIGERIA; NONHUMAN; OOCYST; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL STATUS; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; STUNTING;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; ASCARIASIS; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; FECES; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALARIA; MALE; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 79955993485     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268810001998     Document Type: Article

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