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SUBMITTER: Spano F
PROVIDER: S-EPMC105311 | biostudies-literature | 1998 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Spano F F Putignani L L Crisanti A A Sallicandro P P Morgan U M UM Le Blancq S M SM Tchack L L Tzipori S S Widmer G G
Journal of clinical microbiology 19981101 11
The genetic analysis of oocysts recovered from the stools of humans and animals infected with Cryptosporidium parvum has consistently shown the existence of two distinct genotypes. One of the genotypes is found exclusively in some human infections, whereas the other genotype is found in human as well as in animal infections. On the basis of these observations and the results of published epidemiological studies with single polymorphic markers, the existence of two separate transmission cycles ha ...[more]