Water-Borne Illness
Genome sequence reveals leaner, meaner intestinal parasite
Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, April 20th, 2004
Cryptosporidium parvum - an insidious, one-celled, water-borne parasite that lodges in the intestines of infected people and animals and for which there is currently no effective treatment - is missing key structures normally found in similar parasites, say researchers supported by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), one of the U.S. National Institutes of Health.
The results of their genome sequencing project, published in the March 25, 2004, online issue of Science, could help scientists home in on new drug targets that may lead to therapies for the disease.
C. parvum is an extremely hardy parasite...
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