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Comparative Study
. 2008 Jul;46(7):2396-8.
doi: 10.1128/JCM.00936-08. Epub 2008 May 28.

Genetic diversity and zoonotic potential of Cryptosporidium parvum causing foal diarrhea

A Grinberg  1 , J Learmonth, E Kwan, W Pomroy, N Lopez Villalobos, I Gibson, G Widmer
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Comparative Study

Genetic diversity and zoonotic potential of Cryptosporidium parvum causing foal diarrhea

A Grinberg et al. J Clin Microbiol. 2008 Jul.

Abstract

Cryptosporidium isolates from diarrheic foals in New Zealand (n = 9) were identified as C. parvum, subtyped at two polymorphic loci, and compared with human (n = 45) and bovine (n = 8) isolates. Foal C. parvum isolates were genetically diverse, markedly similar to human and bovine isolates, and carried GP60 IIaA18G3R1 alleles, indicating a zoonotic potential.

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