Cryptosporidium muris, a rodent pathogen, recovered from a human in Perú

Carol J Palmer; Lihua Xiao; Angélica Terashima; Humberto Guerra; Eduardo Gotuzzo; Gustavo Saldías; J Alfredo Bonilla; Ling Zhou; Alan Lindquist; Steve J Upton

doi:10.3201/eid0909.030047

Cryptosporidium muris, a rodent pathogen, recovered from a human in Perú

Emerg Infect Dis. 2003 Sep;9(9):1174-6. doi: 10.3201/eid0909.030047.

Authors

Carol J Palmer¹, Lihua Xiao, Angélica Terashima, Humberto Guerra, Eduardo Gotuzzo, Gustavo Saldías, J Alfredo Bonilla, Ling Zhou, Alan Lindquist, Steve J Upton

Affiliation

¹ University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA.

Abstract

Cryptosporidium muris, predominantly a rodent species of Cryptosporidium, is not normally considered a human pathogen. Recently, isolated human infections have been reported from Indonesia, Thailand, France, and Kenya. We report the first case of C. muris in a human in the Western Hemisphere. This species may be an emerging zoonotic pathogen capable of infecting humans.

Publication types

Case Reports
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

MeSH terms

Adult
Animals
Communicable Diseases, Emerging / epidemiology
Communicable Diseases, Emerging / parasitology*
Cryptosporidiosis / diagnosis
Cryptosporidiosis / epidemiology*
Cryptosporidium / genetics
Cryptosporidium / isolation & purification*
Cryptosporidium / pathogenicity
Feces / parasitology
Female
Humans
Peru / epidemiology
Polymerase Chain Reaction
Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length