Volume 9, Number 9—September 2003

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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¶, and Steve J. Upton#

Author affiliations: *University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA; †Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; ‡Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Perú; §London School of Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom; ¶United States Environmental Protection Agency, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA; #Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, USA

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Figure 1. Nomarski interference contrast photomicrographs of Cryptosporidium muris from the feces of an HIV-positive human. Scale bars = 5 μm.

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