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Cryptosporidium and Cryptosporidiosis: The Perspective from the Gulf Countries

The present review discusses the burden of cryptosporidiosis in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), which is underreported and underestimated. It emphasizes that the Cryptosporidium parasite is infecting inhabitants and expatriates in the Gulf countries. Children under 5 years are a vulnerable group...

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Autores principales: Ahmed, Shahira A., Karanis, Panagiotis
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7558405/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32962045
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17186824
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description The present review discusses the burden of cryptosporidiosis in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), which is underreported and underestimated. It emphasizes that the Cryptosporidium parasite is infecting inhabitants and expatriates in the Gulf countries. Children under 5 years are a vulnerable group that is particularly affected by this parasitic disease and can act as carriers, who contribute to the epidemiology of the disease most probably via recreational swimming pools. Various risk factors for cryptosporidiosis in the GCC countries are present, including expatriates, predisposing populations to the infection. Water contamination, imported food, animal contact, and air transmission are also discussed in detail, to address their significant role as a source of infection and, thus, their impact on disease epidemiology in the Gulf countries’ populations.
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spelling pubmed-75584052020-10-22 Cryptosporidium and Cryptosporidiosis: The Perspective from the Gulf Countries Ahmed, Shahira A. Karanis, Panagiotis Int J Environ Res Public Health Review The present review discusses the burden of cryptosporidiosis in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), which is underreported and underestimated. It emphasizes that the Cryptosporidium parasite is infecting inhabitants and expatriates in the Gulf countries. Children under 5 years are a vulnerable group that is particularly affected by this parasitic disease and can act as carriers, who contribute to the epidemiology of the disease most probably via recreational swimming pools. Various risk factors for cryptosporidiosis in the GCC countries are present, including expatriates, predisposing populations to the infection. Water contamination, imported food, animal contact, and air transmission are also discussed in detail, to address their significant role as a source of infection and, thus, their impact on disease epidemiology in the Gulf countries’ populations. MDPI 2020-09-18 2020-09 /pmc/articles/PMC7558405/ /pubmed/32962045 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17186824 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Cryptosporidium and Cryptosporidiosis: The Perspective from the Gulf Countries
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title_short Cryptosporidium and Cryptosporidiosis: The Perspective from the Gulf Countries
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7558405/
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