Detection of Cryptosporidium sp. in two new seal species, Phoca vitulina and Cystophora cristata, and a novel cryptosporidium genotype in a third seal species, Pagophilus groenlandicus, from the Gulf of Maine

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 98, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 316-322

  Bass, A L ^a   Wallace, C C ^a   Yund, P O ^a   Ford, T E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 70; SMALL SUBUNIT RIBOSOMAL RNA;

GENE EXPRESSION; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; INFECTIVITY; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; NEW RECORD; NEW SPECIES; PARASITIC DISEASE; PHYLOGENETICS; PINNIPED; PROTEIN; PROTOZOAN; TAXONOMY; TERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM ANDERSONI; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM BAILEYI; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM BOVIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM CANIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM CUNICULUS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM FAYERI; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM FELIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM FRAGILE; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM GALLI; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM HOMINIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM MACROPODUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM MELEAGRIDIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM MOLNARI; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM MURIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM RYANAE; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM SERPENTIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM SUIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM UBIQUITUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM VARANII; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM WRAIRI; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM XIAOI; CYSTOPHORA CRISTATA; FECES ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PAGOPHILUS GROENLANDICUS; PHOCA; PHOCA VITULINA; PHYLOGENY; RNA SEQUENCE; SEAL; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BAYES THEOREM; BIRDS; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FECES; FRESH WATER; HOST SPECIFICITY; HSP70 HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; MAINE; MAMMALS; PHOCA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, PROTOZOAN; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; SEALS, EARLESS; SEAWATER;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CANADA; GULF OF MAINE; QUEBEC [CANADA];

ANIMALIA; AVES; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM CANIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM FELIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM SP.; CYSTOPHORA (MAMMALIA); CYSTOPHORA CRISTATA; MAMMALIA; PHOCA; PHOCA GROENLANDICA; PHOCA HISPIDA; PHOCA VITULINA;

EID: 84860267713     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: 19372345     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/GE-2853.1     Document Type: Article

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