Cryptosporidium muris, a rodent pathogen, recovered from a human in Perú.
Carol J
Palmer
;
Lihua
Xiao
;
Angélica
Terashima
;
Humberto
Guerra
;
Eduardo
Gotuzzo
;
Gustavo
Saldías
;
J Alfredo
Bonilla
;
Ling
Zhou
;
Alan
Lindquist
;
Steve J
Upton
;
(2003)
Cryptosporidium muris, a rodent pathogen, recovered from a human in Perú.
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 9 (9).
pp. 1174-1176.
ISSN 1080-6040
DOI: 10.3201/eid0909.030047
Cryptosporidium muris, predominantly a rodent species of Cryptosporidium, is not normally considered a human pathogen. Recently, isolated human infections have been reported from Indonesia, Thailand, France, and Kenya. We report the first case of C. muris in a human in the Western Hemisphere. This species may be an emerging zoonotic pathogen capable of infecting humans.
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Official URL | https://doi.org/10.3201/eid0909.030047 |
Date Deposited | 25 Feb 2019 10:10 |