Cryptosporidium species detected in calves and cattle in Dagoretti, Nairobi, Kenya

Tropical Animal Health and Production

Volumn 44, Issue SUPPL.1, 2012, Pages 25-31

  Kang'ethe, Erastus K ^a   Mulinge, Erastus K ^b   Skilton, Robert A ^c   Njahira, Moses ^c   Monda, Joseph G ^a   Nyongesa, Concepta ^a   Mbae, Cecilia K ^b   Kamwati, Stanley K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI   (Kenya)

^b KENYA MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^c International Livestock Research Institute   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Cryptosporidium; Dairy farming; Genotyping; Kenya

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOAL RNA; RNA 18S;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASE; CLASSIFICATION; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; FECES; FEMALE; GENETICS; HEALTH; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; KENYA; MALE; MIXED INFECTION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COINFECTION; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; FECES; FEMALE; KENYA; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, PROTOZOAN; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; URBAN HEALTH; ZOONOSES;

BOS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM ANDERSONI; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM HOMINIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM;

EID: 84866055235     PISSN: 00494747     EISSN: 15737438     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11250-012-0202-5     Document Type: Article

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