Zoonotic Cryptosporidium parvum in Romanian newborn lambs (Ovis aries)

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 191, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 119-122

  Imre, Kálmán ^a   Luca, Cǎtǎlina ^b   Costache, Marieta ^b   Sala, Claudia ^a   Morar, Adriana ^a   Morariu, Sorin ^a   Ilie, Marius S ^a   Imre, Mirela ^a   Dǎrǎbuş, Gheorghe ^a  

^a BANAT S UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES AND VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Romania)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

Author keywords

Cryptosporidium; GP60 subtypes; Lamb; PCR RFLP; Romania

Indexed keywords

SMALL SUBUNIT RIBOSOMAL RNA;

ANIMAL PARASITOSIS; ARTICLE; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM UBIQUITUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM XIAOI; DNA SEQUENCE; FECES ANALYSIS; GENE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GP60 GENE; MICROSCOPY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYST; OVIS ARIES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; ROMANIA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SHEEP; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; GENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; ROMANIA; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES;

CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 84869865025     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: 18732550     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2012.08.020     Document Type: Article

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