Identity and public health potential of Cryptosporidium spp. in water buffalo calves in Egypt

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 191, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 123-127

  Amer, Said ^a,b   Zidan, Shereif ^c   Feng, Yaoyu ^d   Adamu, Haileeyesus ^a,e   Li, Na ^a,d   Xiao, Lihua ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b Kafrelsheikh University   (Egypt)

^c MENOUFIA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^d EAST CHINA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^e ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

Buffalo; Calves; Cryptosporidium; Egypt; Genotype; Subtype

Indexed keywords

GLYCOPROTEIN; SMALL SUBUNIT RIBOSOMAL RNA;

ARTICLE; CALF (MAMMAL); CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM RYANAE; DNA SEQUENCE; EGYPT; FECES ANALYSIS; GENE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GLYCOPROTEIN GENE; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYST; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SMALL SUBUNIT RRNA GENE; WATER BUFFALO;

ANIMALS; BUFFALOES; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; EGYPT; FECES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH;

BUBALUS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM ANDERSONI; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM BOVIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM;

EID: 84869881813     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: 18732550     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2012.08.015     Document Type: Article

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