Review Article on Cryptosporidiosis: Epidemiology, Clinical Presentation, Diagnosis, and Treatment

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Department of Parasitology1, College of Medicine, MISR University for Science and Technology, 6 October city, Giza, Egypt.

Abstract

Cryptosporidium is the causative agent of Cryptosporidiosis, they are apicomplexan protozoan parasites that have the ability to reproduce asexually and sexually to infect the micro-villous border of the gastrointestinal epithelium causing self-limited diarrhea in immune-competent and severe life-threatening diarrhea in immune-compromised individuals worldwide and may encounter fatal complications (Mohammed et al, 2017).
               Cryptosporidium species are one of the most important waterborne pathogens worldwide, they have been ranked as the sixth most important foodborne parasitic infection of humans and domestic animals and a leading cause of mortality from waterborne gastrointestinal diseases, which can be, transmitted from animals, human to human, water, food, and tends to cause waterborne outbreaks (Zueter et al, 2019).

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Egyptian Academic Journal of Biological Sciences, E. Medical Entomology & Parasitology
Volume 14, Issue 2
December 2022
Pages 149-157

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