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A whole water catchment approach to investigating the origin and distribution of Cryptosporidium species.
Journal of applied microbiology - 1 Sept 2011
Robinson G, Chalmers R M, Stapleton C, Palmer S R, Watkins J, Francis C, Kay D
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AIMS: Investigating the distribution and origin of Cryptosporidium species in a water catchment affected by destocking and restocking of livestock as a result of a foot and mouth disease epidemic. METHODS AND RESULTS: Surface water, livestock and wildlife samples were screened for Cryptosporidium and oocysts characterised by sequencing SSU rRNA and COWP loci, and fragment analysis of ML1, ML2 and GP60...
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