Cryptosporidium species causing acute diarrhoea in children in Antananarivo, Madagascar
Areeshi M et al. - Cryptosporidiosis accounted for diarrhoea in 12 of the 215 children investigated. As 11 of the cases of cryptosporidiosis were caused by Cryptosporidium hominis and only one by C. parvum, most of the cases were probably the result of anthroponotic transmission. GP60/45/15 gene polymorphisms indicated that the causative pathogens were of subtypes Ia, Id, Ie and IIc. [more...]
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