0470016 - BC 2017 RIV PL eng J - Journal Article
Wesołowska, M. - Szostakowska, B. - Kicia, M. - Sak, Bohumil - Kváč, Martin - Knysz, B.
Cryptosporidium meleagridis infection: the first report in Poland of its occurrence in an HIV-positive woman.
Annals of Parasitology. Roč. 62, č. 3 (2016), s. 239-241. ISSN 2299-0631
Institutional support: RVO:60077344
Keywords : Cryptosporidium meleagridis * HIV * AIDS * opportunistic parasites * immunocompromised patients
Subject RIV: FN - Epidemiology, Contagious Diseases ; Clinical Immunology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17420/ap6203.58

Cryptosporidium is an opportunistic protozoan parasite that can cause severe diarrhoea in immunocompromised patients. The transmission of this pathogen in humans and animals is not fully understood. C. meleagridis, originally described in birds, is the only Cryptosporidium species known to naturally infect mammalian and avian species. This study documents the first detection of C. meleagridis in an HIV-infected woman in Poland.
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