The importance of subtype analysis of Cryptosporidium spp. in epidemiological investigations of human cryptosporidiosis in Iran and other Mideast countries

Gastroenterology and Hepatology from Bed to Bench

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 67-70

  Nazemalhosseini Mojarad, Ehsan ^a   Feng, Yaoyu ^b   Xiao, Lihua ^c  

^a SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b EAST CHINA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCOPROTEIN;

CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM HOMINIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM MURIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HUMAN; IRAN; JORDAN; KUWAIT; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; SAUDI ARABIA;

EID: 84861035782     PISSN: 20082258     EISSN: 20084234     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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