Prevalence and characterization of Cryptosporidium spp. in dairy cattle in Nile River delta provinces, Egypt

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 135, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 518-523

  Amer, Said ^a,b   Zidan, Shereif ^c   Adamu, Haileeyesus ^a,d   Ye, Jianbin ^a,e   Roellig, Dawn ^a   Xiao, Lihua ^a   Feng, Yaoyu ^e  

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

^b Kafrelsheikh University   (Egypt)

^c MENOUFIA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^d ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

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

Author keywords

Cattle; Cryptosporidiosis; Cryptosporidium; Egypt; Genotype; Molecular epidemiology; Subtype; Zoonosis

Indexed keywords

GLYCOPROTEIN;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM ANDERSONI; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM BOVIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM RYANAE; DAIRY CATTLE; DNA SEQUENCE; EGYPT; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GLYCOPROTEIN GENE; HEIFER; INDUSTRIALIZATION; INFECTION RATE; MIXED INFECTION; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSIS; NONHUMAN; OOCYST; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM;

CATTLE; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; EGYPT; GENOTYPE; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; SUBTYPE; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; DAIRYING; DNA, PROTOZOAN; EGYPT; FECES; FEMALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; PREVALENCE; RESTRICTION MAPPING; RIVERS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL;

EID: 84884720685     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: 10902449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2013.09.002     Document Type: Article

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