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Molecular-based investigation of Cryptosporidium and Giardia from animals in water catchments in southeastern Australia.
Water research - 1 Apr 2013
Nolan Matthew J, Jex Aaron R, Koehler Anson V, Haydon Shane R, Stevens Melita A, Gasser Robin B
Abstract excerpt
There has been no large-scale systematic molecular epidemiological investigation of the waterborne protozoans, Cryptosporidium or Giardia, in southeastern Australia. Here, we explored, for the first time, the genetic composition of these genera in faecal samples from animals in nine Melbourne Water reservoir areas, collected over a period of two-years. We employed PCR-based single-strand conformation polymorphism...
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