Title:Molecular epidemiology of giardiasis among Orang Asli in Malaysia: application of the triosephosphate isomerase gene

Cryptosporidia are 5-7-mm apicomplexid coccidian parasites that infect humans and many other species of mammals, birds, reptiles, and fish. In humans and cattle, infection by Cryptosporidium parvum usually affects the intestinal tract, resulting in self-limiting diarrhea.4 Respiratory and intestinal cryptosporidiosis occur in birds infected with C. bayleyi and C. meleagridis.5 Sneezing, coughin...

Introduction Cryptosporidium is a genus of Apicomplexa phylum parasites that can cause a respiratory and gastrointestinal illness (cryptosporidiosis) that primarily involves watery diarrhea (intestinal cryptosporidiosis) with or without a persistent cough (respiratory cryptosporidiosis) in both immunocompetent and immunodeficient humans (1-3). A number of Cryptosporidium species infect mammals ...

BACKGROUND Cases of cryptosporidiosis have not been officially reported in Estonia after the year 2000, and the disease appears to be either under-diagnosed or under-reported. FINDINGS Based on a human case of cryptosporidiosis contracted during faecal sampling in dairy farms, cattle considered to be sources of infection were analysed for Cryptosporidium spp. by a modified Ziehl Neelsen techn...

Sir,?I have read with great interest the article, 'A Case of Giardiasis' by H. S. Andleigh, in the June 1942 number of the Indian Medical Gazette. The author reports the striking results of treating a case of giardiasis with atebrin but does not offer any explanation for this, at first sight, surprising result. As this article may lead to further experiments with this method I may perhaps be pe...

Paromomycin: no more effective than placebo for treatment of cryptosporidiosis in patients with advanced human immunodeficiency virus infection. Possible effectiveness of clarithromycin and rifabutin for cryptosporidiosis chemo-prophylaxis in HIV disease. Reply Sir—We thank Dr. White and colleagues for their interest in our article about pa-romomycin and the treatment of AIDS-related cryptospor...