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Cryptosporidium Parvum Fact Sheet

Date
29th Dec, 2009
Author
Wilkes University
Cryptosporidium is a protozoan organism which causes the parasitic infection, cryptosporidiosis. It exists in either the free-swimming (trophozoite) form or the oocyst (dormant) form. Cryptosporidium parvum is now recognized as a human pathogen which can cause severe diarrheal illness.

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