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Does Cryptosporidium parvum have a clonal population structure?
Parasitology today (Personal ed.) - 1 Dec 1999
Awad-El-Kariem F M
Abstract excerpt
Cryptosporidiosis, the disease caused in humans by the opportunistic parasite Cryptosporidium parvum, is the result of zoonotic or anthroponotic transmission. Molecular characterization of different isolates from humans and other mammalian species has recently shown this species to be heterogeneous; this heterogeneity has been linked to the host of isolation, suggesting that the parasites causing zoonotic...
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