High Prevalence of Enterocytozoon bieneusi in Asymptomatic Pigs and Assessment of Zoonotic Risk at the Genotype Level

Enterocytozoon bieneusi is an emerging and clinically significant enteric parasite infecting humans and animals and can cause life-threatening diarrhea in immunocompromised people. Pigs are considered to be one of the main reservoir hosts of E. bieneusi based on their high prevalence rates and zoono...

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Main Authors: Zhao, Wei, Zhang, Weizhe, Yang, Fengkun, Cao, Jianping, Liu, Hua, Yang, Dong, Shen, Yujuan, Liu, Aiqin
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2014
Subjects:
Public and Environmental Health Microbiology
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4054152/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24727270
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1128/AEM.00807-14
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