Detection and characterization of giardia duodenalis and cryptosporidium spp. on swine farms in Ontario, Canada

Foodborne Pathogens and Disease

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1207-1213

  Farzan, Abdolvahab ^a   Parrington, Lorna ^b   Coklin, Tatjana ^b   Cook, Angela ^c   Pintar, Katarina ^c   Pollari, Frank ^c   Friendship, Robert ^a   Farber, Jeffrey ^b   Dixon, Brent ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b HEALTH CANADA   (Canada)

^c PUBLIC HEALTH AGENCY OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; RIBOSOME RNA; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 70; MANURE; PROTOZOAL DNA; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; RIBOSOME DNA;

AMPLICON; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CANADA; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; FOOD CONTAMINATION; GIARDIA DUODENALIS; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; OOCYST; PIG FARMING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWINE; AGE; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; FECES; FEMALE; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; GIARDIA INTESTINALIS; GIARDIASIS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MANURE; PARASITOLOGY; RISK; SWINE DISEASES; TRANSMISSION; VETERINARY; ZOONOSIS;

CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM SP.; GIARDIA; GIARDIA INTESTINALIS; SUIDAE;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; FECES; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; GIARDIASIS; HSP70 HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; HUMANS; MANURE; ODDS RATIO; ONTARIO; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES; ZOONOSES;

EID: 80155192430     PISSN: 15353141     EISSN: 15567125     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/fpd.2011.0907     Document Type: Article

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