Molecular characterization of Cryptosporidium spp. among children in rural Ghana.

• Main Authors: Daniel Eibach (Author), Ralf Krumkamp (Author), Hassan M Al-Emran (Author), Nimako Sarpong (Author), Ralf Matthias Hagen (Author), Yaw Adu-Sarkodie (Author), Egbert Tannich (Author), Jürgen May (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2015-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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BACKGROUND: The relevance of Cryptosporidium infections for the burden of childhood diarrhoea in endemic settings has been shown in recent years. This study describes Cryptosporidium subtypes among symptomatic and asymptomatic children in rural Ghana to analyse subtype-specific demographic, geograph...