TY - JOUR
T1 - Cryptosporidiosis
T2 - An update
AU - Kosek, Margaret
AU - Alcantara, Cirle
AU - Lima, Aldo Am
AU - Guerrant, Richard L.
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank Honorine Ward for reviewing this manuscript and for her thoughtful suggestions. We also thank Yatta Jacob and Leah J Barrett for preparing the manuscript and the illustrations, respectively. The authors are supported by NIH ICIDR grant #2 UO1 AI26512–12, MK by Interdisciplinary Training Program in Immunology Fellowship Grant T 32AI07496, and CA by Fogarty Center International Training and Research in Emerging Infectious Diseases (ITREID) Fellowship Grant 5 D43 TW00909 (Joint funding-FIC/NIAID/NIDR).
PY - 2001/11/1
Y1 - 2001/11/1
N2 - Cryptosporidiosis was recognised in human beings in 1976, and was prominent in the 1980s and 1990s as a cause of severe diarrhoeal illness in patients with AIDS. It is now additionally recognised as a major cause of waterborne diarrhoeal illness in developed regions, and as a pathogen with long-term effect on childhood growth and development in impoverished areas. This update focuses on recent changes in our understanding of the taxonomy of cryptosporidium, its epidemiology, effects, pathogenesis, diagnosis, and treatment.
AB - Cryptosporidiosis was recognised in human beings in 1976, and was prominent in the 1980s and 1990s as a cause of severe diarrhoeal illness in patients with AIDS. It is now additionally recognised as a major cause of waterborne diarrhoeal illness in developed regions, and as a pathogen with long-term effect on childhood growth and development in impoverished areas. This update focuses on recent changes in our understanding of the taxonomy of cryptosporidium, its epidemiology, effects, pathogenesis, diagnosis, and treatment.
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U2 - 10.1016/S1473-3099(01)00121-9
DO - 10.1016/S1473-3099(01)00121-9
M3 - Review article
C2 - 11871513
AN - SCOPUS:0035524382
SN - 1473-3099
VL - 1
SP - 262
EP - 269
JO - Lancet Infectious Diseases
JF - Lancet Infectious Diseases
IS - 4
ER -