Emerging Infectious Diseases (Feb 2002)

Cryptosporidium muris Infection in an HIV-Infected Adult, Kenya

  • Wangeci Gatei,
  • Richard W. Ashford,
  • Nicholas J. Beeching,
  • S. Kang'ethe Kamwati,
  • Julie Greensill,
  • C. Anthony Hart

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid0802.010256
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 2
pp. 204 – 206

Abstract

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We describe a case of Cryptosporidium muris infection in an HIV-infected adult with diarrhea in Kenya. Sequence analysis of an 840-bp region of the 18S rRNA gene locus demonstrated the isolate had 100% nucleotide identity with C. muris recovered from a rock hyrax, 98.8% with a C. muris “calf” isolate, 95.5% with C. serpentis, but only 87.8% with C. parvum “human” type.

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