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Because the relative importance of the risk factors for cryptosporidiosis is different among immunocompetent and immunocompromised persons in the San Francisco Bay Area, public health prevention messages to the two groups must be tailored accordingly.
After four serial passages in the immunocompetent mice, the infection became completely refractory to ACV treatment.
We therefore undertook an incidence density case-control study using prospectively enrolled immunocompetent cases of cryptosporidiosis (identified through the population-based, active surveillance system) and controls (recruited from the general population) to determine the major endemic routes of transmission of cryptosporidiosis in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Both the study by Levin and coworkers [ 9 ] and a study of an experimental pneumonia model with Acinetobacter sp. in immunocompetent mice [ 22 ] suggest that, despite good in vitro activity, the clinical efficacy of colistin may be suboptimal in Gram-negative pneumonia.
Cryptosporidiosis is caused by a coccidian parasite, Cryptosporidium , which is transmitted in its infective form, the oocyst, by the fecal-oral route [ 1 ] . It causes self-limited, watery diarrhea in immunocompetent individuals but can be severe and life threatening in people with immunosuppressive conditions [ 2 ] . Because of the severe nature of the disease in the immunocompromised, most epidemiologic studies have focussed on people with HIV/AIDS and other immunosuppressed states [ 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ] . What is known about transmission patterns in the general US population is based on studies undertaken during outbreaks of the disease, usually waterborne [ 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 ] . Even though cryptosporidiosis is a reportable disease, limited data are available on the routes of endemic transmission and on accurate incidence rates of cryptosporidiosis, especially in the immunocompetent population.
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