Cryptosporidium spp are well recognised as causes of diarrhoeal disease during
waterborne epidemics and in immunocompromised hosts. Studies have also drawn …

Cryptosporidium and Giardia are important causes of diarrhoeal illness. Adequate
knowledge of the molecular diversity and geographical distribution of these parasites and …

Background Diarrhoeal diseases cause illness and death among children younger than 5
years in low-income countries. We designed the Global Enteric Multicenter Study (GEMS) to …

Cryptosporidium is a protozoan parasite of medical and veterinary importance that causes
gastroenteritis in a variety of vertebrate hosts. Several studies have reported different …

Several enteric protozoa cause severe morbidity and mortality in both humans and animals
worldwide. In developed settings, enteric protozoa are often ignored as a cause of diarrheal …

Burden of disease from cryptosporidiosis : Current Opinion in Infectious Diseases Burden of
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Cryptosporidium spp. are coccidians, oocysts‐forming apicomplexan protozoa, which
complete their life cycle both in humans and animals, through zoonotic and anthroponotic …

Diarrhoeal illness is a leading cause of child mortality and morbidity worldwide. There are
no precise or current estimates of the types and prevalence of pathogens associated with …

Background Treatment of cryptosporidiosis in HIV infected children has proved difficult and
unsatisfactory with no drugs having demonstrable efficacy in controlled trials except …

Severe acute malnutrition (SAM) is associated with increased severity of common infectious
diseases, and death amongst children with SAM is almost always as a result of infection …