Extended Outbreak of Cryptosporidiosis in a Pediatric Hospital, China
- Yaoyu Feng
- Lin Wang
- Liping Duan
- Luis A. Gomez-Puerta
- Longxian Zhang
- Xukun Zhao
- Jingjing Hu
- Nan Zhang
- Lihua Xiao
Publication date
February 2012
DOI Publisher
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Journal
Emerging Infectious DiseasesAbstract
Four Cryptosporidium spp. and 6 C. hominis subtypes were isolated from 102 of 6,284 patients in 3 pediatric hospitals in People’s Republic of China. A cryptosporidiosis outbreak was identified retrospectively. The outbreak lasted >1 year and affected 51.4% of patients in 1 hospital ward, where 2 C. hominis subtypes with different virulence were found
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