Distribution and Clinical Manifestations of Cryptosporidium Species and Subtypes in HIV/AIDS Patients in Ethiopia

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Adamu, Haileeyesus ^a,b   Petros, Beyene ^b   Zhang, Guoqing ^c   Kassa, Hailu ^d   Amer, Said ^a,e   Ye, Jianbin ^a,f   Feng, Yaoyu ^f   Xiao, Lihua ^a  

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

^b ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^c CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^d BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e KAFRELSHEIKH UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; GLYCOPROTEIN; RIBOSOME RNA;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADOLESCENT; AGAR GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; DIARRHEA; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPING TECHNIQUE; HIGHLY ACTIVE ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; VOMITING; ZOONOSIS;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ETHIOPIA; FECES; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; GLYCOPROTEINS; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84892836062     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0002831     Document Type: Article

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