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SUBMITTER: Caccio SM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7131239 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Cacciò Simone M SM Sannella Anna Rosa AR Sannella Anna Rosa AR Mariano Valeria V Valentini Silvia S Berti Franco F Tosini Fabio F Pozio Edoardo E
Veterinary parasitology 20120820 1-2
An outbreak of cryptosporidiosis occurred in a mixed sheep/cattle farm of Central Italy in October 2011. A total of 450 ovines (250 sheep and 200 lambs) and 140 bovines (130 cows and 10 calves) were housed in two separated units, at the time of the outbreak. About half of the lambs had diarrhea due to Cryptosporidium sp. with a mortality rate of 80%; calves were not infected. Genomic DNA was extracted from an archived slide and from fecal specimens, and the parasite was identified as Cryptospori ...[more]