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| Domain | Definition |
Health | Parasitic intestinal infection with severe diarrhea caused by a protozoan, Cryptosporidium. It occurs in both animals and humans. (references) |
Medicine | An infection whose main symptom is prolonged diarrhoea which leads to weight loss. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Infection is through contaminated material such as earth, water, or uncooked foods that have been in contact with the feces of an infected individual. Contact must then be transferred to the mouth and swallowed. It is especially prevelent amongst those in regular contact with bodies of fresh water whether through work or recreation.
Symptoms appear from two to ten days after infection and last for up to two weeks or so. As well as watery diarrhea there is often stomach pains or cramps and a low fever. Some individuals are asymptomatic but still infective. Even after symptoms have finally subsided that individual is still infective for some weeks. There is no cure for the disease and treatment is limited to palliative care, especially the replacement of lost fluids.
A number of species of Cryptosporidium infect mammals. In humans the main causes of disease are C. parvum and C. hominis (previously C. parvum genotype 1). C. canis, C. felis, C. meleagridis, and C. muris can also cause disease in humans.
Cryptosporidium has a spore phase (oocyst) and in this state can survive for lengthy periods outside a host and also resist many common disinfectants, notably chlorine bases.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Cryptosporidiosis."
Crosswords: CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS |
| Specialty definitions using "CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS": AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections, Azithromycin ♦ Cryptosporidium. (references) |
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 | Chronology of outbreaks of cryptosporidiosis 1976-1994. waterborne. Credit: CDC. |  | Histopathology of cryptosporidiosis, gallbladder. Paraffin-embedded section shows numerous Cryptosporidium organisms at luminal surfaces of epithelial cells. Patient had AIDS. Parasite. Credit: CDC. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | There is no established specific therapy for human cryptosporidiosis. (references) | |
Cryptosporidiosis (krip-toe-spo-rid-e-o-sis), is a diarrheal disease caused by a microscopic parasite, Cryptosporidium parvum. (references) | ||
This information was prepared by the inter-agency Working Group on Waterborne Cryptosporidiosis, which includes representatives from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Environmental Protection Agency, Food and Drug Administration, U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Association of People With AIDS, AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, and representatives of state and local health departments and water utilities. (references) | ||
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| "CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS" is used about 31 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 31 | 62,296 |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
cryptosporidiosis | 22 |
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| Language | Translations for "CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Danish | cryptosporidiose. (various references) | ||||||||||
Dutch | cryptosporidiose. (various references) | ||||||||||
Finnish | kryptosporidioosi. (various references) | ||||||||||
French | cryptosporidiose. (various references) | ||||||||||
Greek | κρυπτοσποριδίωση, κρυπτοσποριδίαση. (various references) | ||||||||||
Italian | criptosporidiosi. (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 真菌症 (mycoses, mycosis), 深在性真菌症 . (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | し"ざいせいし"き"しょう, し"き"しょう (mycoses, mycosis). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | yptosporidiosiscray criptosporidiosis. (various references) | ||||||||||
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