Prevalence, environmental loading, and molecular characterization of Cryptosporidium and Giardia isolates from domestic and wild animals along the central California coast

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 78, Issue 24, 2012, Pages 8762-8772

  Oates, Stori C ^a,b   Miller, Melissa A ^b   Hardin, Dane ^c   Conrad, Patricia A ^a   Melli, Ann ^a   Jessup, David A ^b   Dominik, Clare ^c   Roug, Annette ^a   Tinker, M Tim ^d   Miller, Woutrina A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Marine Wildlife Veterinary Care and Research Center   (United States)

^c Applied Marine Sciences   (United States)

^d U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL FECES; BEEF CATTLE; CALIFORNIA; COASTAL ECOSYSTEMS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM OOCYSTS; DIRECT DEPOSITION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DOMESTIC ANIMALS; ENVIRONMENTAL LOADINGS; FECAL SAMPLES; GIARDIA; GIARDIA CYSTS; GIARDIA DUODENALIS; HOST GROUP; LOADING ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR CHARACTERIZATION; PARASITE; PARASITE LOAD; PROTOZOAN PARASITES; RISK FACTORS; WATERBORNE PROTOZOA; WILD ANIMALS;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEMS; PROTOZOA;

LOADING;

PROTOZOAL DNA;

BACTERIUM; DISEASE PREVALENCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DOMESTIC SPECIES; FECES; GENOTYPE; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PROTOZOAN; RISK FACTOR; WATERWAY TRANSPORT; WILD POPULATION;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; DNA SEQUENCE; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; FECES; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; GIARDIASIS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITOLOGY; PREVALENCE; UNITED STATES; WILD ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; ANIMALS, WILD; CALIFORNIA; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; DNA, PROTOZOAN; FECES; GENOTYPE; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; GIARDIASIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PREVALENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; BOS; CANIDAE; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; GIARDIA; GIARDIA INTESTINALIS; PROTOZOA;

EID: 84871025024     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02422-12     Document Type: Article

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