Volume 15, Number 6—June 2009
Letter
Cryptosporidium Pig Genotype II in Immunocompetent Man
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.