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. 2002 Feb;8(2):204-6.
doi: 10.3201/eid0802.010256.

Cryptosporidium muris infection in an HIV-infected adult, Kenya

Wangeci Gatei  1 , Richard W Ashford, Nicholas J Beeching, S Kang'ethe Kamwati, Julie Greensill, C Anthony Hart
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Cryptosporidium muris infection in an HIV-infected adult, Kenya

Wangeci Gatei et al. Emerg Infect Dis. 2002 Feb.

Abstract

We describe a case of Cryptosporidium muris infection in an HIV-infected adult with diarrhea in Kenya. Sequence analysis of an 840-bp region of the 18S rRNA gene locus demonstrated the isolate had 100% nucleotide identity with C. muris recovered from a rock hyrax, 98.8% with a C. muris "calf" isolate, 95.5% with C. serpentis, but only 87.8% with C. parvum "human" type.

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Figure 1
Cryptosporidium muris oocysts (under oil X 1,000), stained by Kinyoun’s acid-fast staining.
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Figure 2
Comparison of 18S rRNA gene sequences of Cryptosporidium species. K33-C.muris from human patient (current paper Accession no. AJ307669); C. m (muris) “rock hyrax” (Accession no. AF093498); C.m. (muris) “calf”isolate (AF093496), now renamed C. andersoni; C. serpentis (AF093499); C. p (parvum) “dog” (AF112576); C.p. “rhesus monkey” (AF112569); C.p. “human” (AF093489); C.p. “pig” (AF115377). Numbers refer to the percentage of repeated analyses that gave the same tree topology (bootstrap values).
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