• DOI:10.1016/j.meegid.2015.10.002
Corpus ID: 25360423

North American tree squirrels and ground squirrels with overlapping ranges host different Cryptosporidium species and genotypes.

@article{Stenger2015NorthAT,
  title={North American tree squirrels and ground squirrels with overlapping ranges host different Cryptosporidium species and genotypes.},
  author={Brianna L. S. Stenger and M. Clark and M. Kv{\'a}{\vc} and E. Khan and C. Giddings and Jitka Prediger and J. McEvoy},
  journal={Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases},
  year={2015},
  volume={36},
  pages={
          287-293
        }
}

Brianna L. S. Stenger, M. Clark, +4 authors J. McEvoy

Published 2015

Biology, Medicine

Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases

Wildlife-associated Cryptosporidium are an emerging cause of cryptosporidiosis in humans. The present study was undertaken to determine the extent to which North American tree squirrels and ground squirrels host zoonotic Cryptosporidium species and genotypes. Fragments of the Cryptosporidium 18S rRNA and actin genes were amplified and sequenced from fecal samples obtained from three tree squirrel and three ground squirrel species. In tree squirrels, Cryptosporidium was identified in 40.5% (17… CONTINUE READING

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