Xiaochuan Feng

TL;DR: Mortality rates were higher among children with severe dehydration and persistent diarrhea, and in stunted or underweight children infected with C. parvum, which remains untreatable among Ugandan children.

TL;DR: Only HIV status was independently associated with either Cryptosporidium or E. bieneusi, with HIV being the only independent predictor of coinfection in children with PD, with and without HIV/AIDS attending Mulago National Referral Hospital.

TL;DR: The findings suggest that E. bieneusi is a likely model for extreme genome reduction and host dependence, and short intergenic regions, high gene density, and shortened protein-coding sequences were observed in the E. biosporidian genome, all traits consistent with genomic compaction.

TL;DR: A type 1 isolate, obtained from an individual with HIV and cryptosporidiosis, was successfully adapted to propagate in gnotobiotic piglets, which should facilitate characterization of the unique features of this human pathogen.

TL;DR: The infectivity of a Cryptosporidium parvum isolate of cervine origin (type 2, Moredun) propagated in calves was investigated simultaneously in healthy adult human volunteers and in interferon-gamma knockout (GKO) mice for discerning isolate-specific differences in pathogenicity.