Differentiating human from animal isolates of Cryptosporidium parvum.

doi:10.3201/eid0404.980424

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Differentiating human from animal isolates of Cryptosporidium parvum.

Emerging infectious diseases - 1 Jan 2000

Sulaiman I M, Xiao L, Yang C, Escalante L, Moore A, Beard C B, Arrowood M J, Lal A A

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We analyzed 92 Cryptosporidium parvum isolates from humans and animals by a polymerase chain reaction/restriction fragment length polymorphism method based on the thrombospondin-related anonymous protein 2 gene sequence. Used as a molecular marker, this method can differentiate between the two ge...

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Animals
Cattle
Cattle Diseases
Cryptosporidiosis
Cryptosporidium parvum
Disease Outbreaks
Genotype
Humans
Polymerase Chain Reaction
Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length
Protozoan Proteins
Sequence Analysis, DNA

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