From modern-day parasitology to paleoparasitology: the elusive past record and evolution of Cryptosporidium.

ABSTRACT: Recent efforts have been made to review the state of the art on a variety of questions and targets in paleoparasitology, including protozoan taxa. Meanwhile, these efforts seemed to let aside Cryptosporidium, and we then intended to review its paleoparasitological record to assess its past distribution and favored detection methods, and eventually highlight needed research trajectories. This review shows that contrary to other parasites, most of the positive results came from South-American sites and coprolites rather than sediment samples, highlighting the need to test this kind of material, notably in Europe where many negative results were reported in the published literature from sediment samples. Moreover, aDNA-based detections are nearly absent from the paleoparasitological re

SUBMITTER: Roche K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10622768 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature