Prevalence and genotyping identification of Cryptosporidium in adult ruminants in central Iran

Abstract Background Apicomplexan parasites of the genus Cryptosporidium infect a wide range of animal species as well as humans. Cryptosporidium spp. can cause life threatening diarrhea especially in young animals, children, immunocompromised patients and malnourished individuals. Asymptomatic crypt...

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Main Authors: Zohre Firoozi, Alireza Sazmand, Alireza Zahedi, Akram Astani, Ali Fattahi-Bafghi, Narges Kiani-Salmi, Behnam Ebrahimi, Arefeh Dehghani-Tafti, Una Ryan, Fateme Akrami-Mohajeri
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-10-01
Series:Parasites & Vectors
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13071-019-3759-2