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Second edition. Edited by Ronald Fayer. 251 pp., illustrated. Boca Raton, Fla., CRC Press, 1997. $89.95. ISBN 0-8493-7695-5.

Cryptosporidium has risen from obscurity to substantial public health importance within the past 15 years. This is the second edition of this authoritative textbook and reference guide for information on cryptosporidium.

Cryptosporidium is an enigmatic parasite that was first found in 1907 by Tyzzer, a parasitologist, in the stomach of a mouse. Cryptosporidium received no attention from the medical world until 1976, when it was identified in the intestine of a child with diarrhea. Cryptosporidiosis was subsequently thought to be a rare infection of little or no importance, until 1982, when the AIDS epidemic began. Good diagnostic techniques were then . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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