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Age patterns of Cryptosporidium species and Giardia duodenalis in dairy calves in Egypt.
Parasitology international - 1 Dec 2018
Naguib Doaa, El-Gohary Adel H, Mohamed Amro A, Roellig Dawn M, Arafat Nagah, Xiao Lihua
Abstract excerpt
Little is known of the occurrence and age patterns of species/genotypes and subtypes of Cryptosporidium spp. and Giardia duodenalis in calves in Egypt. In this study, 248 fecal specimens were collected from dairy calves aged 1 day to 6 months on eight farms in three provinces during March 2015 to April 2016. Cryptosporidium spp. were detected and genotyped by using PCR-RFLP analysis of the small subunit rRNA (SSU...
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