Cryptosporidium cuniculus and giardia duodenalis in rabbits: Genetic diversity and possible zoonotic transmission

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Zhang, Weizhe ^a   Shen, Yujuan ^b   Wang, Rongjun ^c   Liu, Aiqin ^a   Ling, Hong ^a   Li, Yihong ^a   Cao, Jianping ^b   Zhang, Xiaoyun ^a   Shu, Jing ^a   Zhang, Longxian ^a,b,c  

^a HARBIN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^c HENAN AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHINA; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM CUNICULUS; DNA SEQUENCE; EXPERIMENTAL RABBIT; FECES ANALYSIS; GENE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; GIARDIA DUODENALIS; GIARDIASIS; GLYCOPROTEIN 60 GENE; MICROBIAL IDENTIFICATION; MICROORGANISM DETECTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYST; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; SMALL SUBUNIT RIBOSOMAL RNA GENE; TRIOSEPHOSPHATE ISOMERASE GENE; ZOONOSIS; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; HUMAN; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PARASITOLOGY; RABBIT;

TRIOSEPHOSPHATE ISOMERASE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHINA; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RABBITS; TRIOSE-PHOSPHATE ISOMERASE; ZOONOSES;

EID: 84857176190     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0031262     Document Type: Article

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