Extended outbreak of cryptosporidiosis in a pediatric hospital, China

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 312-314

  Feng, Yaoyu ^a   Wang, Lin ^a,b   Duan, Liping ^b   Gomez Puerta, Luis A ^b   Zhang, Longxian ^c   Zhao, Xukun ^a   Hu, Jingjing ^a   Zhang, Nan ^a   Xiao, Lihua ^b  

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

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^c HENAN AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SMALL SUBUNIT RIBOSOMAL RNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM FELIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM HOMINIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM MELEAGRIDIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EPIDEMIC; GENE; GLYCOPROTEIN GENE; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PEDIATRIC HOSPITAL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHINA; CROSS INFECTION; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; DIARRHEA, INFANTILE; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, PEDIATRIC; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MOLECULAR TYPING; PREVALENCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84863047160     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1802.110666     Document Type: Article

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