Cryptosporidium : This article is part of the Microbe Profiles collection.

Rachel M. Chalmers; Angharad P. Davies; Kevin Tyler

doi:10.1099/mic.0.000764

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Cryptosporidium

This article is part of the Microbe Profiles collection.

Rachel M. Chalmers^{1 ,2}, Angharad P. Davies² and Kevin Tyler³
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Affiliations: ¹ Cryptosporidium Reference Unit, Public Health Wales Microbiology and Health Protection, Singleton Hospital, Swansea SA2 8AQA, UK ² Swansea University Medical School, Singleton Park, Swansea SA2 8PP, UK ³ Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia, Norwich, Norfolk NR4 7TJ, UK
*Correspondence: Rachel M. Chalmers, [email protected]
Published: 01 May 2019 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.000764

Abstract

The protozoan Cryptosporidium is notorious for its resistance to chlorine disinfection, a mainstay of water treatment. Human infections, mainly of the small intestine, arise from consumption of faecally contaminated food or water, environmental exposure, and person-to-person or animal-to-person spread. Acute gastrointestinal symptoms can be prolonged but are usually self-limiting. Problems arise with immune-deficient, including malnourished, people including chronic diarrhoea, hepato-biliary tree and extra-gastrointestinal site infection, and few options for treatment or prevention exist. Although genomics has enabled refined classification, identification of chemotherapeutic targets and vaccine candidates, and putative factors for host adaption and pathogenesis, their confirmation has been hampered by a lack of biological tools.

Received: 27/07/2018
Accepted: 12/12/2018
Published Online: 01/05/2019

Keyword(s): Cryptosporidium , infection and sequelae

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