Open AccessCryptosporidium parvum infection following contact with livestock
Author(s) -
Denis Suler,
David Mullins,
Travis Rudge,
John Ashurst
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
north american journal of medical sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2250-1541
pISSN - 1947-2714
DOI - 10.4103/1947-2714.187162
Subject(s) - cryptosporidium , cryptosporidium parvum , medicine , hygiene , diarrhea , outbreak , transmission (telecommunications) , context (archaeology) , feces , livestock , environmental health , personal hygiene , intensive care medicine , veterinary medicine , virology , microbiology and biotechnology , biology , pathology , family medicine , paleontology , ecology , electrical engineering , engineering
Scours, or calf diarrhea, is an infectious gastrointestinal disease commonly found in the calves of dairy farms. It primarily presents with diarrhea that can be life threatening to the animal and is also contagious and threatening to the other livestock. Cryptosporidium is one of the major causes of scours and can be transmitted to humans via fecal-oral route, resulting in diarrheal illnesses. Cryptosporidiosis infection usually occurs as a waterborne outbreak with the potential to affect many people at once.