Cryptosporidium hominis genotypes involved in increased incidence and clusters of cases, Navarra, Spain, 2012

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 143, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1033-1036

  Fuentes, I ^a   Martin C ^b   Beristain, X ^b   Mazon A ^b   Saugar, J M ^a   Blanco, A ^a   Garcia Cenoz M ^c,d   Valle Cristia, M ^c,d   Ezpeleta, C ^b   Castilla, J ^c,d  

^a INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

^b Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Navarra   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTO DE SALUD PÚBLICA DE NAVARRA   (Spain)

^d CIBER EPIDEMIOLOGÍA Y SALUD PÚBLICA CIBERESP   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cryptosporidium; epidemiology; outbreaks; surveillance; waterborne infections

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOAL DNA;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COWP GENE; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM HOMINIS; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DNA DETERMINATION; EPIDEMIC; GENE; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GP60 GENE; HUMAN; IAA18R3 GENE; IBA10G2R2 GENE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; MOLECULAR TYPING; NONHUMAN; PARASITE INCIDENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTOZOAL GENETICS; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RURAL POPULATION; SPAIN; URBAN POPULATION; URBAN RURAL DIFFERENCE; ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; DNA SEQUENCE; FECES; FEMALE; GENETICS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; PARASITOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; FECES; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MALE; RURAL POPULATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPAIN; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84924582091     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268814001836     Document Type: Article

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