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Multisite study of cryptosporidiosis in children with diarrhea in India.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Jun 2010
Ajjampur Sitara Swarna Rao, Liakath Farzana Begum, Kannan Arun, Rajendran Priya, Sarkar Rajiv, Moses Prabhakar Devarajan, Simon Anna, Agarwal Indira, Mathew Ann, O'Connor Roberta, Ward Honorine, Kang Gagandeep
Abstract excerpt
Cryptosporidium spp., a common cause of diarrhea in children, were investigated in the first multisite study in India. Diarrheal stools from hospitalized children aged <5 years from Delhi, Trichy, and Vellore were analyzed by microscopy, PCR-restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP), and/or sequencing at the small-subunit (SSU) rRNA and Cpgp40/15 loci for species determination and subgenotyping,...
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