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Volume 13, Number 3—March 2007

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Cryptosporidium hominis Infection of the Human Respiratory Tract

Rubén Mercado*Comments to Author , Gregory A. Buck†, Patricio A. Manque†, and Luiz Shozo Ozaki†
Author affiliations: *Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile; †Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, USA

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Figure 2

Agarose gel electrophoresis of DNA fragments amplified with Cryptosporidium species–specific Lib13 primers (7). Ch, C. hominis; Cp, C. parvum; M, DNA molecular marker (Bioline, Randolph, MA, USA; HyperLadder II, higher intensity bands: 0.3, 1, and 2 Kbp); Chi, sample Chile01.

Figure 2. . . Agarose gel electrophoresis of DNA fragments amplified with Cryptosporidium species–specific Lib13 primers (7). Ch, C. hominis; Cp, C. parvum; M, DNA molecular marker (Bioline, Randolph, MA, USA; HyperLadder II, higher intensity bands: 0.3, 1, and 2 Kbp); Chi, sample Chile01.

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