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Population structure of natural and propagated isolates of Cryptosporidium parvum, C. hominis and C. meleagridis.
Environmental microbiology - 1 Apr 2015
Widmer Giovanni, Ras Refaat, Chalmers Rachel M, Elwin Kristin, Desoky Enas, Badawy Ahmed
Abstract excerpt
The three protozoan species Cryptosporidium parvum, C. meleagridis and C. hominis (phylum Apicomplexa) are enteric pathogens of humans. The former two species are zoonotic and the latter is thought to infect only humans. To better characterize the structure and transmission of natural and laboratory-propagated isolates, we analyzed a collection of archived human and animal isolates of these three species by...
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