Specific and quantitative detection and identification of Cryptosporidium hominis and C. parvum in clinical and environmental samples

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 135, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 142-147

  Yang, Rongchang ^a   Murphy, Cain ^a   Song, Yong ^a   Ng Hublin, Josephine ^a   Estcourt, Annika ^a   Hijjawi, Nawal ^b   Chalmers, Rachel ^c   Hadfield, Stephen ^c   Bath, Andrew ^d   Gordon, Cameron ^d   Ryan, Una ^a  

^a MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b HASHEMITE UNIVERSITY   (Jordan)

^c SINGLETON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d Water Corporation Leederville   (Australia)

Author keywords

18S nested PCR; Clinical; Cryptosporidium; Environmental; QPCR

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM HOMINIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FECES ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYST; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; WATER ANALYSIS;

18S NESTED PCR; CLINICAL; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; ENVIRONMENTAL; QPCR;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; CZECH REPUBLIC; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; HUMANS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RNA, PROTOZOAN; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; WATER; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84882769148     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: 10902449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2013.06.014     Document Type: Article

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