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Periparturient transmission of Cryptosporidium xiaoi from ewes to lambs.
Veterinary parasitology - 8 Nov 2013
Ye Jianbin, Xiao Lihua, Wang Yuanfei, Wang Lin, Amer Said, Roellig Dawn M, Guo Yaqiong, Feng Yaoyu
Abstract excerpt
The mechanism for the maintenance of Cryptosporidium infection in sheep between yearly lambing periods is not clear. Previously, periparturient shedding of oocysts as the result of stress from lambing was suspected to be a mechanism for the initiation of Cryptosporidium infection in lambs, but this has never been verified by genotyping studies. In this study, fecal specimens from four age groups of sheep in Inner...
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