Almost a fifth of pre-washed vegetables on supermarket shelves in the UK could contain a parasite found in contaminated faeces, a study suggests. Scientists found traces of cryptosporidium, the ...

Cryptosporidium (crip-toe-spor-ID-ee-um) is a protozoan, a single-celled parasite that lives in the intestines of animals and people. This microscopic pathogen causes a disease called ...

The UK Health and Security Agency says it is trying to find the source of the outbreak of cryptosporidium. Cryptosporidium is a tiny organism that causes an illness in people and some animals ...

A total of 222 diarrheic calves (180 cattle and 42 buffaloes) were used in this study. The presence of the protozoan was ...

Recent Dutch research focusing on dairy heifers suffering from scour indicated a cost of between €140 and €190 to bring those ...

While cryptosporidiosis, infection by the protist parasite Cryptosporidium, is rare in the U.S., it is a common cause of deadly diarrhea in other parts of the world. The only FDA-approved ...

A waterborne disease has been discovered in pre-washed vegetables being sold in Kent. Cryptosporidium, which can cause diarrhoea and sickness, was found in 17% of samples of pre-washed vegetables ...

Early research evaluating two unnamed drug molecules for controlling cryptosporidiosis in calves has yielded positive results ...

Announcing a new article publication for Zoonoses journal. The objectives of this study were to determine the prevalence of Cryptosporidium spp. infections in diarrheic calves reared in different ...