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PCR-IMS detection and molecular typing of Cryptosporidium parvum recovered from a recreational river source and an associated mussel (Mytilus edulis) bed in Northern Ireland.
Epidemiology and infection - 1 Dec 2001
Lowery C J, Nugent P, Moore J E, Millar B C, Xiru X, Dooley J S
Abstract excerpt
PCR-IMS was used to detect Cryptosporidium spp. in environmental water samples in Northern Ireland which had previously tested negative by a conventional IFA staining method. Oocysts of C. parvum detected in river water and final treated sewage effluent collected from various sites along the river Lagan were identified as genotype 2 (animal origin) based on polymorphisms observed at the thrombospondin related...
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