Volume 15, Number 6—June 2009
Letter
Cryptosporidium Pig Genotype II in Immunocompetent Man
Martin Kváč, Dana Květoňová, Bohumil Sak
, and Oleg Ditrich
, and Oleg Ditrich
Table
Cryptosporidium genotypes identified by using sequencing of partial sequences of the small subunit rRNA gene in the stool samples of immunocompetent humans, Czech Republic
| Patient no. | Age, y/sex | Examination year | Cryptosporidium species/genotype | Infection intensity* |
GenBank accession no. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sample 1 | Sample 2 | |||||
| H15 | 9/M | 2005 | C. parvum† | 56 | 78 | EU331237 |
| H23 | 10/M | 2005 | C. hominis | 77 | 121 | EU331242 |
| H98 | 10/F | 2005 | C. parvum† | 43 | 25 | EU331238 |
| H101 | 11/M | 2006 | C. parvum† | 11 | 5 | EU331239 |
| H132 | 8/M | 2006 | C. parvum† | 150 | 62 | EU331240 |
| H158 | 11/M | 2007 | C. parvum† | 26 | 85 | EU331241 |
| H199 | 29/M | 2007 | Cryptosporidium pig genotype II | 38‡ | 27‡ | EU331243 |
*Numbers of oocysts per 30 fields at ×1,000 magnification, unless otherwise indicated.
†Bovine genotype.
‡Numbers of oocysts per whole slide at ×1,000 magnification.
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