Asymptomatic carriage of protozoan parasites in children in day care centers in the United Kingdom

Davies, Angharad Puw, Campbell, Brian, Evans, Meirion Rhys ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3578-1866, Bone, Angie, Roche, Anita and Chalmers, Rachel Mary 2009. Asymptomatic carriage of protozoan parasites in children in day care centers in the United Kingdom. The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal 28 (9) , pp. 838-840. 10.1097/INF.0b013e31819d646d

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Abstract

Point prevalence of Cryptosporidium and Giardia carriage among 230 asymptomatic preschool children attending day-care facilities was 1.3% (95% CI: 0.3%–3.8%) for each parasite, with no dual infections. Cryptosporidium oocysts were detected by immunomagnetic separation and immunofluorescence microscopy and genotyped: one isolate was Cryptosporidium hominis, the other 2 being skunk and cervine genotypes, rarely found in symptomatic human infection.

Item Type:	Article
Status:	Published
Schools:	Schools > Medicine
Subjects:	R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine
Publisher:	Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
ISSN:	0891-3668
Last Modified:	20 Oct 2022 08:36
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/28914

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