Molecular detection and identification of Cryptosporidium species in lettuce employing nested small-subunit rRNA PCR and direct automated sequencing

Br J Biomed Sci. 2007;64(3):133-5. doi: 10.1080/09674845.2007.11978102.

Authors

M Shigematsu¹, Y Nagano, B C Millar, F Kenny, C J Lowery, L Xiao, J R Rao, V Nicholson, M Watabe, N Heaney, O Sunnotel, K McCorry, P J Rooney, W Snelling, J S G Dooley, J S Elborn, M Matsuda, J E Moore

Affiliation

¹ Northern Ireland Public Health Laboratory, Department of Bacteriology, Belfast City Hospital, Belfast, Northern Ireland.

PMID: 17910286
DOI: 10.1080/09674845.2007.11978102

No abstract available

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

MeSH terms

Animals
Cryptosporidium / genetics
Cryptosporidium / isolation & purification*
Food Contamination / analysis*
Humans
Lactuca / microbiology*
Molecular Sequence Data
Phylogeny
Polymerase Chain Reaction / methods*
Sensitivity and Specificity
Sequence Analysis, DNA*
Sewage / microbiology

Substances

Sewage