Cryptosporidium
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Cryptosporidium is a noun meaning Any protozoan of the genus Cryptosporidium, intestinal parasites of humans and other vertebrates that can cause diarrhea and other symptoms in cases of low immunity.
Meaning
Any protozoan of the genus Cryptosporidium, intestinal parasites of humans and other vertebrates that can cause diarrhea and other symptoms in cases of low immunity.
Example Sentences
Recall the outbreak of cryptosporidia gastroenteritis in Milwaukee in 1994.
In Hungarian studies on the causes of diarrhea in kids younger than one month of age in large commercial dairy goat herds, cryptosporidia were isolated more frequently than rotavirus, coronavirus, adenovirus, or enterotoxigenic E. coli.
2020, Alexandra F. Freeman, Steven M. Holland, 53: Prevention and management of infections, Kathleen E. Sullivan, E. Richard Stiehm (editors), Stiehm's Immune Deficiencies: Inborn Errors of Immunity, Elsevier (Academic Press), 2nd Edition, page 1122, Disorders associated with cryptosporidia include CD40 ligand deficiency, DOCK8 deficiency and IL-21 receptor deficiency.
Word Forms
- cryptosporidia
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include cryptosporidiosis, cryptospora, sarcosporidium, sporozoan, protococcidian, haplosporidian.
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