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Identification of genotypically mixed Cryptosporidium parvum populations in humans and calves.
Molecular and biochemical parasitology - 11 Aug 2003
Tanriverdi Sultan, Arslan M Ozkan, Akiyoshi Donna E, Tzipori Saul, Widmer Giovanni
Abstract excerpt
Genotypic analyses of Cryptosporidium parvum oocysts have divided the species into two genotypes, referred to as type 1 and type 2. Although humans are susceptible to both types, mixed type 1/type 2 infections have rarely been identified. The paucity of mixed infections could be explained by the predominance of one type over the other in mixed infections, or by the poor sensitivity of restriction fragment length...
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