Cases of cryptosporidiosis co-infections in AIDS patients: A correlation between clinical presentation and GP60 subgenotype lineages from aged formalin-fixed stool samples

Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology

Volumn 105, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 339-349

  del DelChierico, F ^a   Onori, M ^a   di Bella, S ^b   Bordi, E ^b   Petrosillo, N ^b   Menichella, D ^a   Caccio S M ^c   Callea, F ^a   Putignani, L ^a  

^a BAMBINO GESÙ CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES L SPALLANZANI   (Italy)

^c ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORMALDEHYDE; GLYCOPROTEIN;

ADULT; AIDS PATIENT; ARTICLE; CELL LINEAGE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM HOMINIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; DNA EXTRACTION; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MALE; MIXED INFECTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; AIDS-RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; BASE SEQUENCE; COINFECTION; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; DNA, PROTOZOAN; FECES; FEMALE; FIXATIVES; FORMALDEHYDE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 80052882536     PISSN: 00034983     EISSN: 13648594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/1364859411Y.0000000025     Document Type: Article

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