Short report: Investigation of potential zoonotic transmission of cryptosporidiosis in Southern India

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 85, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 657-659

  Rajendran, Priya ^a   Ajjampur, Sitara Swarna Rao ^a   Chidambaram, Divya ^a   Kattula, Deepthi ^a   Rajan, Deva Prasanna ^a   Ward, Honorine ^b   Kang, Gagandeep ^a  

^a CHRISTIAN MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^b TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM HOMINIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM XIAOI; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INDIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ZOONOSIS; ANIMAL;

ANIMALIA;

ANIMALS; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; HUMANS; INDIA; ZOONOSES;

EID: 80053910649     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2011.10-0673     Document Type: Article

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