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The principal reason for this is that the disease is under-reported by physicians and laboratories and it is frequently under-diagnosed [ 20 ] . Even when people seek care for diarrhea, fecal specimen tests for Cryptosporidium are not part of the routine ova and parasites testing protocols.
Because the incubation period between exposure to Cryptosporidium oocysts and symptoms is not well understood in persons with AIDS, it is possible that contact with fecal material which occurred long before the incident diagnosis might be the source of these infections.
Foodborne outbreaks of cryptosporidiosis in which the vehicle of transmission was identified are few and only one outbreak in Maine was definitively associated with contaminated fresh-pressed apple cider [ 28 ] . Other foodborne outbreaks due to cryptosporidiosis have implicated food handlers [ 29 ] and social events [ 30 31 ] . Person-to-person outbreaks have been better documented, such as those in hospitals [ 32 33 34 35 36 37 ] and day care centers [ 38 39 ] . It is becoming increasingly evident that cryptosporidiosis is one of the multitude of enteric pathogens that is endemic in hospital and day care settings [ 40 41 42 43 ] . Other routes of exposure to Cryptosporidium may be responsible for sporadic disease in the general population such as specific sexual contact with an infected individual [ 44 45 46 ] , travel to endemic countries [ 47 48 49 50 ] , and contact with animals, both domestic and livestock [ 1 2 51 52 ] . Recent studies in Australia have demonstrated that exposure to persons with diarrhea and swimming in public pools rather than consumption of untreated tap water are the sources of community-acquired cryptosporidiosis in that country [ 53 ] . The relative contribution for each of these modes of transmission to the total burden of sporadic cryptosporidiosis among immunocompetent persons continues to be unknown in the U.S.
All 13 of the controls who agreed to have their stool tested for Cryptosporidium had negative test results.
This is consistent with current Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) prevention Guidelines that, for a non-outbreak setting, people with HIV disease may consider tap water avoidance or boiling water prior to drinking to reduce the risk of infection with Cryptosporidium [ 17 ] . Whether it would be better to drink boiled water or bottled water is unknown at this time, although our results suggest that appropriately bottled water may be effective.
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