Cryptosporidium is an enteric parasite that is considered the second greatest cause of
diarrhoea and death in children after rotavirus. Currently, 27 species are recognised as valid …

Parasites of the genus Cryptosporidium are a major cause of diarrhoea and ill-health in
humans and animals and are frequent causes of waterborne outbreaks. Until recently, it was …

Despite being a frequent cause of severe diarrheal disease in infants and an opportunistic
infection in immunocompromised patients, Cryptosporidium research has lagged due to a …

The apicomplexan parasite Cryptosporidium is a leading global cause of severe diarrhoeal
disease and an important contributor to early childhood mortality. Currently, there are no …

Toxoplasma gondii infects up to one third of the world's population. A key to the success of T.
gondii as a parasite is its ability to persist for the life of its host as bradyzoites within tissue …

Background The switch from photosynthetic or predatory to parasitic life strategies by
apicomplexans is accompanied with a reductive evolution of genomes and losses of …

Cryptosporidiosis is caused by an obligate intracellular parasite that has eluded global
transcriptional or proteomic analysis of the intracellular developmental stages. The transcript …

Cryptosporidium host cell interaction remains fairly obscure compared with other
apicomplexans such as Plasmodium or Toxoplasma. The reason for this is probably the …

There is no vaccine to protect from cryptosporidiosis, a leading cause of diarrhea in infants
in low-and middle-income countries. Here, we comprehensively identified parasite antigens …

Cysts of Giardia lamblia and Entamoeba histolytica and oocysts of Toxoplasma gondii and
Cryptosporidium parvum are the infectious and sometimes diagnostic forms of these …