Protozoan of Cryptosporidium genus are gastrointestinal pathogens that cause diseases of great socio-economic importance worldwide. They infect a broad range of hosts including domestic animals and humans. It continues to ...

Cryptosporidiosis in sheep has great relevance to public health due to the constant proximity with sheep producers and possibly, sick animals. This protozoan began to receive the attention of the medical and scientific ...

Among parasitic infections in poultry, the most common is cripitosporidiose. The genus Cryptosporidium causes infections that can lead to significant economic losses in the poultry industry, both cutting and posture, it's ...

Pigeons are widely distributed in the cities, where usually they look for places like hen houses, public parks, school yards, farms and gardens to feed themselves, because at these places there is a lot of food with easy ...

In immunocompetent individuals cryptosporidiosis is a self-limiting disease, but in young and immunocompromised can even be lethal, and until now there is no treatment considered effective. Diarrhea is one of the symptoms ...

The criptosporidiosis is known since 1907, but there is no much data compilation about it. 152 animal species have been described with this parasite. With all the researches found, it is necessary a review about the disease, ...

Cryptosporidiosis is a cosmopolitan protozoonosis infection caused by coccidia of the genus Cryptosporidium. The infection in cattle is caused mainly by the following species of parasite: Cryptosporidium parvum, Cryptosporidium ...

The aim of this book is to clarify the epidemiologic aspects and control related to cryptosporidiosis in humans and domestic animals. Obligate intracellular parasites, the protozoa of the genus Cryptosporidium develop in ...