| Literature DB >> 12017359 |
Peter F M Teunis1, Cynthia L Chappell, Pablo C Okhuysen.
Abstract
The infectivity of three different isolates of the waterborne protozoan parasite Cryptosporidium parvum has been tested in human feeding studies. These three isolates (Iowa, TAMU, and UCP) have different ID50s, indicating substantial variation in their infectivity for humans. This finding is of great importance for quantitative risk assessment as it provides strong evidence for heterogeneity in infectivity among isolates of the same species.Entities:
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Year: 2002 PMID: 12017359 DOI: 10.1111/0272-4332.00014
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Risk Anal ISSN: 0272-4332 Impact factor: 4.000