Molecular characterization of Cryptosporidium isolates from humans and animals in Iran
Ahmad Reza Meamar1, Karine Guyot, Gabriela Certad
1Department of Medical Parasitology and Mycology, School of Public Health and Institute of Public Health Research, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, P.O. Box 14155-6446, Tehran, Iran.
Applied and Environmental Microbiology
|December 5, 2006
Abstract:
Isolates of Cryptosporidium spp. from human and animal hosts in Iran were characterized on the basis of both the 18S rRNA gene and the Laxer locus. Three Cryptosporidium species, C. hominis, C. parvum, and C. meleagridis, were recognized, and zoonotically transmitted C. parvum was the predominant species found in humans.

