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[Cryptosporidium spp.]

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Cryptosporidium sp. oocysts in a wet mount.

Cryptosporidium sp. oocysts stained with trichrome.

Cryptosporidium sp. oocysts  stained with modified acid-fast.

Cryptosporidium sp. oocysts unstained on a slide stained with modified acid-fast.

Cryptosporidium sp. oocysts  stained with safranin.

Cryptosporidium sp. oocysts stained with Ziehl-Neelsen modified acid-fast.

Cryptosporidium parvum oocysts stained with the fluorescent stain auramine-rhodamine.

Oocysts of C. parvum (upper left) and cysts of Giardia intestinalis (lower right) labeled with immunofluorescent antibodies.

Life cycle of Cryptosporidium parvumand C. hominis.

Molecular diagnosis of Cryptosporidium parvum.

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