Cryptosporidium infection in humans and animals from Iraq: A review

Detection of eimeria species in domestic goat with both microscopic and molecular methods in Al-Diwaniyah Province

“…The infection rate which recorded in male and female in our study were different than other studied may be due to exposure different environmental condition and different management. Higher prevalence of Eimeria in female goats is in consistent with the findings of Hassanen et al (2020).The result of this study was disagreement with Alali et al (2021) in Iraq, who found that, sex had an influence on the prevalence of infection with coccidiosis in adult female goats, which were significantly higher than adult male goats; which is consistent with the findings of Kheirandish et al (2014) from goats in Iran who recorded the rate of Eimeria spp. infection in female goats was higher than those in males.…”

Cryptosporidiosis in Domestic Animals: As Neglected Zoonotic Disease

“…Another two studied on Cryptosporidiosis in camels were performed, which reported varying rates of infection about 14% -61% and C. parvum was the only species detected (Hussin et al 2015;Ahmed et al 2016). However, in case of sheep and goats, the rate of infection was 13% -74% in sheep and 12% -32.5% in goats and six species of Cryptosporidium were reported namely; C. parvum, C. hominis, C. suis, C. andersoni, C. ubiquitum and C. xiaoi among sheep and goats (Alali et al 2021).…”

“…The main causative agent of profuse diarrhea and possibly death in neonatal calves is Cryptosporidium parvum, then the disease is asymptomatic in animals older than six weeks (Siddique et al 2021). In Iraq, several research studies on cryptosporidiosis illustrated that among domestic animals; cattle are more commonly infected with oocysts of C. parvum compared to other domestic animals with prevalence of 54.1%, due to shedding of heavy (Yang et al 2020;Alali et al 2021). The reasons for detection of Cryptosporidium species in many animals' species at different ages are due to changes in the intestinal microflora as well as changes in diet, which may reduce the capacity of the pathogen to infect adult animal enterocytes (Siddique et al 2021).…”

“…Fig. 1: Life cycle of Cryptosporidium parvum.burden of oocysts (1.1× 108) per gram of feces(Silverlås and Blanco-Penedo 2013;Robertson et al 2014;Hatam-Nahavandi et al 2019;Alali et al 2021). Other species of Cryptosporidium have been reported; Cryptosporidium andersoni diagnosed among young and adult cattle, while C. bovis and C. ryanae were detected among post-weaned calves and less commonly among pre-weaned calves(Yang et al 2020;Alali et al 2021).…”

“…1: Life cycle of Cryptosporidium parvum.burden of oocysts (1.1× 108) per gram of feces(Silverlås and Blanco-Penedo 2013;Robertson et al 2014;Hatam-Nahavandi et al 2019;Alali et al 2021). Other species of Cryptosporidium have been reported; Cryptosporidium andersoni diagnosed among young and adult cattle, while C. bovis and C. ryanae were detected among post-weaned calves and less commonly among pre-weaned calves(Yang et al 2020;Alali et al 2021). The reasons for detection of Cryptosporidium species in many animals' species at different ages are due to changes in the intestinal microflora as well as changes in diet, which may reduce the capacity of the pathogen to infect adult animal enterocytes(Siddique et al 2021).…”