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Multilocus genotypic analysis of Cryptosporidium parvum isolates from different hosts and geographical origins.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Nov 1998
Spano F, Putignani L, Crisanti A, Sallicandro P, Morgan U M, Le Blancq S M, Tchack L, Tzipori S, Widmer G
Abstract excerpt
The genetic analysis of oocysts recovered from the stools of humans and animals infected with Cryptosporidium parvum has consistently shown the existence of two distinct genotypes. One of the genotypes is found exclusively in some human infections, whereas the other genotype is found in human as well as in animal infections. On the basis of these observations and the results of published epidemiological studies...
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