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. 2016 Sep 15;21(37):30338.
doi: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2016.21.37.30338.

Towards a consensus on genotyping schemes for surveillance and outbreak investigations of Cryptosporidium, Berlin, June 2016

R M Chalmers  1 , S Cacciò
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Towards a consensus on genotyping schemes for surveillance and outbreak investigations of Cryptosporidium, Berlin, June 2016

R M Chalmers et al. Euro Surveill. .
No abstract available

Keywords: cryptosporidiosis; molecular epidemiology; multilocus; outbreaks; standardised.

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