Exposures associated with infection with Cryptosporidium in industrialised countries: a systematic review protocol.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Cryptosporidium is a protozoan parasite of humans and other animals worldwide and is one of the greatest contributors to human diarrhoeal illness. Transmission can occur indirectly via contaminated food or water, or directly via contact with animals or other infected people. Risk exposures are often identified from outbreak investigations, but a subset of cases remains unexplained, and sources for sporadic disease and pathways to infection are still unclear. Given the few systematic syntheses of reported evidence in industrialised populations, the aim of this review is to consolidate the literature to describe exposures associated with human cryptosporidiosis in industrialised countries, specifically including the UK, and describe any differences between outbreak-associa

SUBMITTER: McKerr C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5932784 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature