Molecular epidemiology, spatiotemporal analysis, and ecology of sporadic human cryptosporidiosis in Australia

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 77, Issue 21, 2011, Pages 7757-7765

  Waldron, Liette S ^a   Dimeski, Borce ^b   Beggs, Paul J ^a   Ferrari, Belinda C ^c   Power, Michelle L ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM HOMINIS; EMERGING DISEASE; FECAL SAMPLES; GENDER BIAS; HUMAN DISEASE; HUMAN FECAL; HUMAN INFECTION; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; NEW SOUTH WALES; NEW SOUTH WALES , AUSTRALIA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPATIO-TEMPORAL APPROACH; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SUCCESSFUL MANAGEMENT; WATER-BORNE DISEASE;

GENES;

DISEASES;

PARASITE ANTIGEN; PROTOZOAL DNA;

CATTLE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; INFECTIVITY; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PARASITIC DISEASE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WATERBORNE DISEASE;

AGE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CATTLE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; DNA SEQUENCE; FECES; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITOLOGY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; ZOONOSIS;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; CATTLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; DNA, PROTOZOAN; FECES; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEW SOUTH WALES; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; ZOONOSES;

AUSTRALIA; NEW SOUTH WALES;

EID: 83155178377     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00615-11     Document Type: Article

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