Blastocystis sp.: Waterborne zoonotic organism, a possibility?

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Lee, Li Ii ^a   Chye, Tan Tian ^a   Karmacharya, Biraj Man ^b   Govind, Suresh Kumar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

^b KATHMANDU UNIVERSITY   (Nepal)

Author keywords

Blastocystis; Molecular evidence; Nepal; Rural communities; Waterborne zoonosis

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA;

ARTICLE; BLASTOCYSTIS; BLASTOCYSTOSIS; BUFFALO; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FECES ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PARASITE CULTIVATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RIVER; RURAL AREA; RURAL POPULATION; SEQUENCE TAGGED SITE; SEROPREVALENCE; SWINE; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER SAMPLING; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; BLASTOCYSTIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FECES; HUMANS; NEPAL; RIVERS; RUMINANTS; RURAL POPULATION; SWINE; WATER;

ANIMALIA; BLASTOCYSTIS; BLASTOCYSTIS SP.; SUIDAE;

EID: 84865782489     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-5-130     Document Type: Article

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