Horse-Specific Cryptosporidium Genotype in Human with Crohn's Disease and Arthritis

Abstract

We identified an unusual subtype of a Cryptosporidium sp. horse genotype as the cause of cryptosporidiosis in a 13-year-old girl in Poland who was undergoing immunosuppressive treatment for juvenile rheumatoid arthritis and Crohn’s disease. The same subtype was identified in a horse the girl had ridden.

Keywords

• cryptosporidiosis
• transmission
• Cryptosporidium
• protist
• parasite
• genotype