Cryptosporidium Parvum Volunteer Study: Infectivity and Immunity

Cryptosporidium: From Molecules to Disease

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 79-81

  Chappell, Cynthia L ^a   Okhuysen, Pablo C ^b   DuPont, Herbert L ^c   Sterling, Charles R ^d   Tzipori, Saul ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^c ST LUKE S EPISCOPAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^e TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84865476719     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-044451351-9/50010-0     Document Type: Chapter

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