Volume 14, Number 10—October 2008
Research
Cryptosporidium Species and Subtypes and Clinical Manifestations in Children, Peru
Table 2
Distribution of subtype families and subtypes of Cryptosporidium hominis and C. parvum in 533 children, Peru
Species | Subtype families | No. episodes (%) |
Subtype: no. (%) within subtype family | GenBank accession no. | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
At first infection | All | ||||
C. hominis | Ia | 15 (24.6) | 21 (26.9) | IaA11R4: 3 (14) | EU095258* |
IaA12R4: 7 (33) | EU095259* | ||||
IaA13R4: 1 (5) | EU095260* | ||||
IaA13R7: 1 (5) | EU095261* | ||||
IaA14R6: 5 (24) | EU095262* | ||||
IaA15R3: 3 (14) | EU095263* | ||||
Ib | 16 (26.2) | 23 (29.5) | IbA10G2: 23 (100) | AY262031 | |
Id | 7 (11.5) | 12 (15.4) | IdA10: 9 (75) | EU095264* | |
IdA15: 1 (8) | DQ280498 | ||||
IdA20: 2 (16) | EU095265* | ||||
Ie | 15 (24.6) | 19 (24.4) | IeA11G3T3:19 (100) | DQ665689 | |
lb + le | 1 (1.6) | 1 (1.3) | 1 (1.3) | ||
Ib + id | 1 (1.6) | 1 (1.3) | 1 (1.3) | ||
Id + ie |
1 (1.6) |
1 (1.3) |
1 (1.3) |
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C. hominis and C. parvum |
Id + IIc |
1 |
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C. parvum | IIc | 14 (100) | 14 (100) | IIcA5G3a: 12 (86) | AY738195 |
IIcA5G3b: 1 (7) | EU095266* | ||||
IIcA5G3c: 1 (7) | EU095267* |
*From this study.