Epidemiology and Molecular Characterization of Cryptosporidium spp. in Humans, Wild Primates, and Domesticated Animals in the Greater Gombe Ecosystem, Tanzania

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2015, Pages

  Parsons, Michele B ^a,b   Travis, Dominic ^c   Lonsdorf, Elizabeth V ^d   Lipende, Iddi ^e   Roellig, Dawn M Anthony ^b,e   Kamenya, Shadrack ^e   Zhang, Hongwei ^f   Xiao, Lihua ^b   Gillespie, Thomas R ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^d FRANKLIN AND MARSHALL COLLEGE   (United States)

^e The Jane Goodall Institute   (United States)

^f CHINESE CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; DIARRHEA; DNA SEQUENCE; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; INFECTION RISK; MALE; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSIS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SCHOOL CHILD; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TANZANIA; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WATER CONTAMINATION; ADULT; ANIMAL; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; ECOSYSTEM; FECES; GENETICS; LIVESTOCK; PARASITOLOGY; PIG; PRIMATE; RISK FACTOR; RIVER; RURAL POPULATION; SHEEP; TRANSMISSION; WILD ANIMAL; ZOONOSES;

ADULT; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; ANIMALS, WILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; ECOSYSTEM; FECES; HUMANS; LIVESTOCK; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIMATES; RISK FACTORS; RIVERS; RURAL POPULATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SHEEP; SWINE; TANZANIA; ZOONOSES;

EID: 84924087503     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0003529     Document Type: Article

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