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Cryptosporidium muris, a rodent pathogen, recovered from a human in Perú
Carol J Palmer1, Lihua Xiao, Angélica Terashima
1University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA.
Emerging Infectious Diseases
|October 2, 2003
Abstract:
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.