Evidence of Cryptosporidium transmission between cattle and humans in northern New South Wales

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 130, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 437-441

  Ng, Josephine Su Yin ^a   Eastwood, Keith ^b   Walker, Belinda ^c   Durrheim, David N ^b   Massey, Peter D ^b   Porigneaux, Philippe ^b   Kemp, Ross ^c   McKinnon, Bob ^c   Laurie, Kate ^b   Miller, David ^a   Bramley, Elizabeth ^a   Ryan, Una ^a  

^a MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b HUNTER NEW ENGLAND POPULATION HEALTH   (Australia)

^c ABBOTT LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

18S rRNA; Calves; Cryptosporidium; Genotyping; Gp60; Humans; Outbreak; Zoonotic transmission

Indexed keywords

RAIN; RNA 18S;

AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARTICLE; CALF (BOVINE); CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM BOVIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM RYANAE; DAIRY CATTLE; DIARRHEA; FARM ANIMAL; FECES ANALYSIS; GENE LOCUS; HAND WASHING; HUMAN; MILK; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE ISOLATION; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; RURAL POPULATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; TRAVEL; WATER SUPPLY; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; FECES; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEW SOUTH WALES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; ZOONOSES;

BOS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM BOVIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM;

EID: 84862826385     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: 10902449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2012.01.014     Document Type: Article

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