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Cryptosporidiosis in Kuwaiti children: association of clinical characteristics with Cryptosporidium species and subtypes.
Journal of medical microbiology - 1 May 2011
Iqbal Jamshaid, Khalid Nabila, Hira Parsotam Ravjee
Abstract excerpt
To determine the association of clinical characteristics with Cryptosporidium types and subtypes, faecal specimens from 2548 children with diarrhoea were screened by microscopy for Cryptosporidium spp., and positive specimens were genotyped and subtyped by PCR-RFLP. A total of 87 of the 2548 children (3.4 %) had cryptosporidial diarrhoea by microscopy and the majority (41.4 %) of the infected children were in the...
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