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Cryptosporidiosis in birds--a review
1Department of Parasitology, University of Veterinary Science, Budapest, Hungary. tsreter@ns.univet.hu
Veterinary Parasitology
|February 11, 2000
Abstract:
The morphology, life cycle, maintenance, host specificity, incidence of Cryptosporidium species infecting birds, as well as the epidemiology, clinical signs, pathology, immunology, diagnosis, therapy, and control of avian cryptosporidiosis are reviewed. Based on the accepted criteria used for differentiation of Cryptosporidium isolates into valid species, this review places the validity of C. meleagridis in doubt and suggests that C. meleagridis isolated from birds is very closely related to, or identical with C. parvum infecting more than 100 species of mammals.