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Cryptosporidium meleagridis from humans: molecular analysis and description of affected patients.
The Journal of infection - 1 May 2001
Pedraza-Díaz S, Amar C F, McLauchlin J, Nichols G L, Cotton K M, Godwin P, Iversen A M, Milne L, Mulla J R, Nye K, Panigrahl H, Venn S R, Wiggins R, Williams M, Youngs E R
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVES: To genetically characterize an unusual genotype of Cryptosporidium from the stools of humans with diarrhoea and to identify risk factors in the affected patients. METHODS: DNA was extracted from human faeces where Cryptosporidium oocysts were detected by light microscopy. Cryptosporidial gene fragments from six different loci were analysed by PCR alone, PCR/RFLP and by DNA sequencing. Oocysts were...
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