Molecular characterizations of Cryptosporidium, Giardia, and Enterocytozoon in humans in Kaduna State, Nigeria

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 131, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 452-456

  Maikai, Beatty V ^a,b   Umoh, Jarlath U ^b   Lawal, Idris A ^b   Kudi, Ayuba C ^b   Ejembi, Clara L ^b   Xiao, Lihua ^a  

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

^b AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Cryptosporidium; Enterocytozoon; Giardia; Humans; Nigeria

Indexed keywords

GLYCOPROTEIN; GLYCOPROTEIN GP 60; INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER; SMALL SUBUNIT RIBOSOMAL RNA; TRIOSEPHOSPHATE ISOMERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM HOMINIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DNA SEQUENCE; ENTEROCYTOZOON; ENTEROCYTOZOON INFECTION; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENE; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GIARDIA; GIARDIA DUODENALIS; GIARDIASIS; GP60 GENE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; INFANT; INFECTION RATE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROBIAL GENETICS; MICROORGANISM DETECTION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NIGERIA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SCHOOL CHILD; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SSU GENE; TPI GENE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; ENTEROCYTOZOON; FECES; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; GIARDIASIS; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MICROSPORIDIOSIS; MIDDLE AGED; NIGERIA; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RISK FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM HOMINIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; ENTEROCYTOZOON; ENTEROCYTOZOON BIENEUSI; GIARDIA; GIARDIA INTESTINALIS;

EID: 84864052904     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: 10902449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2012.05.011     Document Type: Article

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