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. 2021 Jan 23;27(1):80–90. doi: 10.1186/BF03548561

Experimental cryptosporidiosis in mice, calves and chicken

Experimentell cryptosporidios hos möss, kalvar och kycklingar

Suvi Pohjola 1,✉, Lars-Axel Lindberg 1
PMCID: PMC8189404  PMID: 3751816

Abstract

Experimental infections attributed solely to Cryptosporidium were carried out in newborn SPF mice, calves and chicken in order to study the prepatency, patency and incubation periods, describe the clinical symptoms and find and describe any correlations between the association of Cryptosporidium with the intestinal mucosa and presence of pathological lesions. The paper also gives the clinical and paarsitological parameters of Cryptosporidium infection of calves from a field survey and compares them to the results of experimental study.

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