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Chlamydiae are obligate intracellular pathogens that infect a variety of host organisms and exhibit individual tissue tropisms within a host species.
All intracellular bacterial pathogens enter host cells surrounded by a membrane bound vacuole [ 35 36 ] . Some pathogens in heavily infected cells collect into a single vacuole within the same cell [ 37 ] . J774 macrophages infected at a moi of 5:1 showed separate M. paratuberculosis -containing vacuoles within the same macrophage even after 48 hours postinfection (Figure 2).
If E. coli can acquire virulence genes from archaea, then potentially any organism is a reservoir of virulence genes for pathogens.
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.
Health status was evaluated quarterly by the vendor and the animals were free of tested pathogens (other than Bordetella bronchiseptica and rotavirus but these were not expected to interfere with the current study).
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