Detection of a novel genotype of Cryptosporidium in Antarctic pinnipeds

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 191, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 112-118

  Rengifo Herrera, Claudia ^a   Ortega Mora, Luis Miguel ^a   Gómez Bautista, Mercedes ^a   García Peña, Francisco Javier ^b   García Párraga, Daniel ^c   Pedraza Díaz, Susana ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b Laboratorio Central de Veterinaria de Algete   (Spain)

^c Ciudad de las Artes y de las Ciencia ^*  (Spain)

Author keywords

Antarctica; Cryptosporidium; Giardia; Pinnipeds

Indexed keywords

HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 70;

ANTARCTICA; ARCTOCEPHALUS GAZELLA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COWP GENE; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; FECES ANALYSIS; GENE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENOTYPE; GIARDIA; HSP70 GENE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; LEPTONYCHOTES WEDDELLII; MIROUNGA LEONINA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEAL; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

ANIMALS; ANTARCTIC REGIONS; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; FECES; GIARDIA; GIARDIASIS; HSP70 HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PINNIPEDIA; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; SEALS, EARLESS;

CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM SP.; GIARDIA; LEPTONYCHOTES WEDDELLII; MAMMALIA; MIROUNGA; MIROUNGA LEONINA; PINNIPEDIA;

EID: 84869883598     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: 18732550     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2012.08.021     Document Type: Article

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