Human Cryptosporidiosis in Immunocompetent and Immunodeficient Persons: Studies of an Outbreak and Experimental Transmission

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 308, Issue 21, 1983, Pages 1252-1257

  Current, William L ^a,b,c   Reese, Norman C ^a,b,c   Ernst, John V ^a,b,c   Bailey, Wilford S ^a,b,c   Heyman, Melvin B ^a,b,c   Weinstein, Wilfred M ^a,b,c  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD AND HEMOPOIETIC SYSTEM; CALF; CASE REPORT; CATTLE; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; ETIOLOGY; FECES; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; LARGE INTESTINE; OOCYST; PREVENTION; PROTOZOON; SMALL INTESTINE;

EID: 0020585426     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM198305263082102     Document Type: Article

References (31)

1. Vetterling JM, Jervis HR, Merrill TG, Sprinz H. Cryptosporidium wrairi sp. n. from the guinea pig Cavia porcellus, with an emendation of the genus. J Protozool 1971; 18: 243–7.
2. Hoerr FJ, Ranck FM, Hastings TF. Respiratory cryptosporidiosis in turkeys. J Am Vet Med Assoc 1978; 173: 1591–3.
3. Dhillon AS, Thacker HL, Dietzel V, Winterfield RW. Respiratory cryptosporidiosis in broiler chickens. Avian Dis 1981; 25: 747–51.
4. Anderson BC. Patterns of shedding of cryptosporidial oocysts in Idaho calves. J Am Vet Med Assoc 1978; 178: 982–4.
5. Pohlenz J, Moon HW, Cheville NF, Bemrick WJ. Cryptosporidiosis as a probable factor in neonatal diarrhea of calves. J Am Vet Med Assoc 1978; 172: 452–7.
6. Tzipori S, Campbell I, Sherwood D, Snodgrass DR. An outbreak of calf diarrhoea attributed to cryptosporidial infection. Vet Rec 1980; 107: 579–80.
7. Heine VJ, Boch J. Kryptosporidien-infektionen beim Kalb Nachweis, votkommen und experimentelle Ubertragung. Berl Muench Tieraerztl Wochenschr 1981; 94: 289–92.
8. Barker IK, Carbonell PL. Cryptosporidium agni sp.n. from lambs, and Cryptosporidium bovis sp.n. from a calf, with observations on the oocyst. Z Parasitenkd 1974; 44: 289–98.
9. Tzipori S, Angus KW, Gray EW, Campbell I, Allan F. Diarrhea in lambs experimentally infected with Cryptosporidium isolated from calves, Am J Vet Res 1981; 42: 1400–4.
10. Stemmermann GN, Hayashi T, Glober GA, Oishi N, Frankel RI. Cryptosporidiosis: report of a fatal case complicated by disseminated toxoplasmosis. Am J Med 1980; 69: 637–42.
11. Weisburger WR, Hutcheon DF, Yardley JH, Roche JC, Hillis WD, Charache P. Cryptosporidiosis in an immunosuppressed renal-transplant recipient with IgA deficiency. Am J Clin Pathol 1979; 72: 473–8.
12. Lasser KH, Lewin KJ, Ryning FW. Cryptosporidial enteritis in a patient with congenital hypogammaglobulinemia. Hum Pathol 1979; 10: 234–40.
13. Sloper KS, Dourmashkin RR. Bird RB, Slavin G, Webster ADB. Chronic malabsorption due to cryptosporidiosis in a child with immunoglobulin deficiency. Gut 1982; 23: 80–2.
14. Meisel JL, Perera DR, Meligro C, Rubin CE. Overwhelming watery diarrhea associated with a cryptosporidium in an immunosuppressed patient. Gastroenterology 1976; 70: 1156–60.
15. Bird RG. Protozoa and viruses: human cryptosporidiosis and concomitant viral enteritis. In: Canning EU, ed. Parasitological topics. Lawrence, Kans.: Society of Protozoologists, 1981:39–47. (Society of Protozoologists special publication no. 1).
16. Weinstein L, Edelstein SM, Madara JL, Falchuk KR, McManus BM, Trier JS. Intestinal cryptosporidiosis complicated by disseminated cytomegalovirus infection. Gastroenterology 1981; 81: 584–91.
17. Nime FA, Burek JD, Page DL, Holscher MA, Yardley JH. Acute enterocolitis in a human being infected with the protozoan cryptosporidium. Gastroenterology 1976; 70: 592–8.
18. Tzipori S, Angus KW, Gray EW, Campbell I, Sherwood D. Vomiting and diarrhea associated with cryptosporidial infection. N Engl J Med 1980; 303: 818.
19. Anderson BC, Donndelinger T, Wilkins RM, Smith J. Cryptosporidiosis in a veterinary student. J Am Vet Med Assoc 1982; 180: 408–9.
20. Reese NC, Current WL, Ernst JV, Bailey WS. Cryptosporidiosis of man and calf: a case report and results of experimental infections in mice and rats. Am J Trop Med Hyg 1982; 31: 226–9.
21. Babb RR, Differding JT, Trollope ML. Cryptosporidia enteritis in a healthy professional athlete. Am J Gastroenterol 1982; 77: 833–4.
22. Cryptosporidiosis: assessment of chemotherapy of males with acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). Morbid Mortal Weekly Rep 1982; 31: 589–92.
23. Schultz RD, Adams LS. Immunologic methods for the detections of humoral and cellular immunity. Vet Clin North Am 1978; 8: 721–53.
24. Gottlieb MS, Schroff R, Schanker HM, et al. Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia and mucosal candidiasis in previously healthy homosexual men: evidence of a new acquired cellular immunodeficiency. N Engl J Med 1981; 305: 1425–31.
25. Tzipori S, Angus KW, Campbell I, Gray EW. Cryptosporidium: evidence for a single-species genus. Infect Immun 1980; 30: 884–6.
26. Iseki M. Cryptosporidium felis sp. n. (Protozoa: Eimeriorina) from the domestic cat. Jpn J Parasitol 1979; 28: 285–307.
27. Kennedy GA, Kreitner GL, Strafuss Achéal. Cryptosporidiosis in three pigs. J Am Vet Med Assoc 1977; 170: 348–50.
28. Mason RW, Hartley WJ, Tilt L. Intestinal cryptosporidiosis in a kid goat. Aust Vet J 1981; 57: 386–8.
29. Tyzzer EE. A sporozoan found in the peptic glands of the common mouse. Proc Soc Exp Biol Med 1907; 5: 12–3.
30. Moon HW, Bemrick WJ. Fecal transmission of calf cryptosporidia between calves and pigs. Vet Pathol 1981; 18: 248–55.
31. Tzipori S, Angus KW, Campbell I, Gray EW. Experimental infection of lambs with Cryptosporidium isolated from a human patient with diarrhea. Gut 1982; 23: 71–4.