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Molecular and epidemiological investigations of cryptosporidiosis in Cuban children.
Annals of tropical medicine and parasitology - 1 Dec 2008
Pelayo L, Nuñez F A, Rojas L, Wilke H, Furuseth Hansen E, Mulder B, Gjerde B, Robertson L
Abstract excerpt
Molecular and epidemiological studies of Cryptosporidium infections amongst 28 Cuban children (aged 2-8 years) with diarrhoea are described. As few of the younger infected children but most of the older infected children had been breastfed, short-term protection from maternal antibodies passed to infants during breastfeeding may result in a lack of cryptosporidial infection in infancy. This protection of...
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