Prevalence of Giardia duodenalis assemblages among dairy herds in the New York City Watershed

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 185, Issue 2-4, 2012, Pages 151-157

  Mark Carew, Miguella P ^a   Wade, Susan E ^a   Chang, Yung Fu ^a   Schaaf, Stephanie ^a   Mohammed, Hussni O ^a  

^a Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics   (United States)

Author keywords

Dairy; Genotypes; Giardia; Prevalence; Watershed

Indexed keywords

ZINC SULFATE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BETA GIARDIN GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; DAIRY CATTLE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CARRIER; DNA EXTRACTION; FECES ANALYSIS; GENE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GIARDIA DUODENALIS; GIARDIASIS; HERD; INFECTION RISK; MICROBIAL COLONIZATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYST; PARASITE INCIDENCE; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PARASITE VIRULENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRIOSEPHOSPHATE ISOMERASE GENE; UNITED STATES; WATERSHED;

AGING; ANIMALS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; DAIRYING; ECOSYSTEM; FECES; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; GIARDIASIS; NEW YORK CITY; WATER MOVEMENTS;

ANIMALIA; BOS; CANIS FAMILIARIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; GIARDIA; GIARDIA INTESTINALIS;

EID: 84858278475     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: 18732550     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2011.09.030     Document Type: Article

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