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SUBMITTER: Feng Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2075072 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Feng Yaoyu Y Alderisio Kerri A KA Yang Wenli W Blancero Lisa A LA Kuhne William G WG Nadareski Christopher A CA Reid Michael M Xiao Lihua L
Applied and environmental microbiology 20070824 20
To identify the animal sources for Cryptosporidium contamination, we genotyped Cryptosporidium spp. in wildlife from the watershed of the New York City drinking water supply, using a small-subunit rRNA gene-based PCR-restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis and DNA sequencing. A total of 541 specimens from 38 species of wildlife were analyzed. One hundred and eleven (20.5%) of the wildlife specimens were PCR positive. Altogether, 21 Cryptosporidium genotypes were found in wildlife sampl ...[more]