Multiple Cryptosporidium genotypes detected in wild black rats (Rattus rattus) from northern Australia

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 131, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 404-412

  Paparini, Andrea ^a   Jackson, Bethany ^b   Ward, Simon ^c   Young, Stuart ^c   Ryan, Una M ^a  

^a MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b New Zealand Centre for Conservation Medicine (NZCCM)   (New Zealand)

^c Biodiversity Unit   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

18S rDNA; Actin; Cryptosporidium; Molecular phylogeny; Prevalence; Rats; Wildlife conservation

Indexed keywords

DNA 18S;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BABESIA; BLOOD SAMPLING; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION (SPECIES); MALE; MICROORGANISM DETECTION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE ISOLATION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOAL GENETICS; RAT; THEILERIA; TRYPANOSOMA; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; DISEASE VECTORS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; FECES; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; MALE; NORTHERN TERRITORY; PHYLOGENY; PREVALENCE; RATS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; RODENT DISEASES;

ANIMALIA; BABESIA; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM SP.; MAMMALIA; RATTUS; RATTUS RATTUS; RODENTIA; THEILERIA;

EID: 84864054185     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: 10902449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2012.05.009     Document Type: Article

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