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Molecular Identification of Cryptosporidium viatorum Infection in a Patient Suffering from Unusual Cryptosporidiosis in West Bengal, India.
The Korean journal of parasitology - 1 Aug 2021
Sardar Sanjib Kumar, Ghosal Ajanta, Saito-Nakano Yumiko, Dutta Shanta, Nozaki Tomoyoshi, Ganguly Sandipan
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In this study, we have collected and screened a total of 268 stool samples from diarrheal patients admitted to an Infectious disease hospital in Kolkata for the presence of Cryptosporidium spp. The initial diagnosis was carried out by microscopy followed by genus specific polymerase chain reaction assays based on 70 kDa heat shock proteins (HSP70). DNA sequencing of the amplified locus has been employed for...
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