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Cryptosporidium genotypes in wildlife from a new york watershed.
Applied and environmental microbiology - 1 Oct 2007
Feng Yaoyu, Alderisio Kerri A, Yang Wenli, Blancero Lisa A, Kuhne William G, Nadareski Christopher A, Reid Michael, Xiao Lihua
Abstract excerpt
To identify the animal sources for Cryptosporidium contamination, we genotyped Cryptosporidium spp. in wildlife from the watershed of the New York City drinking water supply, using a small-subunit rRNA gene-based PCR-restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis and DNA sequencing. A total of 541 specimens from 38 species of wildlife were analyzed. One hundred and eleven (20.5%) of the wildlife specimens were...
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