Table 1. Cryptosporidium species* found in human infections.

Species	Main Host	Site of infection	Reference
C. hominis	Human	Small intestine	Xiao 17
C. parvum	Ruminants	Small intestine	Tyzzer apud Xiao 17
C. meleagridis	Turkey, Birds and human	Small intestine	Slavin 86
C. felis	Cats	Small intestine	Xiao and Feng 87
C. canis	Dogs	Small intestine	Fayer et al . 88
C. ubiquitum	Cattle, Ruminants, rodents, primates	Intestine	Fayer et al . 1
C. muris	House mouse, Rodents	Stomach	Tyzzer apud Xiao 17
C. viatorum	Human	Small intestine	Elwin et al . 89
C. cuniculus	European rabbits	Intestine	Robinson et al . 90
C. andersoni	Cattle	Abomasum	Lindsay et al . 91
C. suis	Pigs	Small and large intestine	Ryan et al . 92
C. bovis	Cattle	Small intestine	Fayer et al. 93
C. erinacei	European hedgehog, horses		Kvác et al . 94
C. scrofarum	Pig	Intestine	Kvác et al . 95
C. tyzzeri	Mouse, Rodents	Small intestine	Tyzzer 17 ; Ren et al . 96
C. xiaoi	Sheep and goats		Fayer and Santín 97
C. fayeri	Kangaroo, Marsupials	Small intestine	Ryan et al . 98

Adapted from: Xiao et al . ¹⁴ and Ryan et al . ⁵⁸ . *Chipmunk genotype I; Skunk genotype; Mink genotype; Horse genotype