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Unveiling <i>Cryptosporidium parvum</i> Sporozoite-Derived Extracellular Vesicles: Profiling, Origin, and Protein Composition
2023-12-21
Abstract excerpt
Cryptosporidium parvum is a common cause of a zoonotic disease and a main cause of diarrhea in newborns around the world. Effective drugs or vaccines are still lacking. Oocyst is the infective form of the parasite; after the ingestion the oocyst excysts and releases four sporozoites into the intestine that rapidly attack the enterocytes. The membrane protein CpRom1 is a large rhomboid protease that is expressed by...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 01d596cb-dbb1-5eeb-920d-74e8853b7ac1
- DOI
- 10.1101/2023.12.21.571703
