Because is not uncommon for microparasitic infections to exhibit multiple genotypes within a single host, "mixed-genotype" infections often have significant influence on the dynamics of the infection, and presumably the exhibition and severity of symptoms. In this project, the effect of mixed infections was examined using a mouse model of cryptosporidiosis by infecting a sample group of mice with equal numbers of C. parvum oocysts of two genotypes and comparing infection progress to that of mice infected with single-genotype C. parvum oocysts.

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Creator

• Golovyan, Dmitriy

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• 04D231M

Advisor

• Crusberg, Theodore C.

Year

• 2004

Date created

• 2004-01-01

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Biology & Biotechnology

Rights statement

• In Copyright