| cryptosporidium spp. in wild, laboratory, and pet rodents in china: prevalence and molecular characterization. | to understand the prevalence of cryptosporidium infection in rodents in china and to assess the potential role of rodents as a source for human cryptosporidiosis, 723 specimens from 18 rodent species were collected from four provinces of china and examined between august 2007 and december 2008 by microscopy after using sheather's sugar flotation and modified acid-fast staining. cryptosporidium oocysts were detected in 83 specimens, with an overall prevalence of 11.5%. phodopus sungorus, phodopus ... | 2009 | 19820152 |
| molecular characterization of a new genotype of cryptosporidium from american minks (mustela vison) in china. | a total of 469 fecal samples were collected from american minks (mustela vison) on a farm in hebei province in china and examined for cryptosporidium by sheather's sugar flotation technique and 8 cryptosporidim isolates were obtained. the partial 18s rrna, 70kda heat shock protein (hsp70), cryptosporidium oocyst wall protein (cowp) and actin genes of six isolates were sequenced. sequence data were analyzed together with known cryptosporidium spp. and genotypes. results of this multi-locus geneti ... | 2008 | 18434024 |
| natural infection with two genotypes of cryptosporidium in red squirrels (sciurus vulgaris) in italy. | we investigated the genotypes of cryptosporidium infecting red squirrels (sciurus vulgaris l.) in two areas of the western alps in italy. examination of 141 faecal samples from 70 red squirrels revealed oocysts of cryptosporidium in 17 animals (24.3%). based on 18s rrna gene sequencing, two genotypes of cryptosporidium species were found: 15 squirrels were positive for the cryptosporidium ferret genotype and 2 for the cryptosporidium chipmunk genotype i. the occurrence and intensity of cryptospo ... | 2008 | 18666411 |