Talk:Cryptosporidium

TV Show
It is probably shown in a TV show which was Monsters Inside Me in Season 1,Episode 2.

(S.Tumbu) 2:16, 12 October 2014 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 112.209.255.195 (talk)

song
Should it be mentioned that Cannibal Corpse has a hit song called Cryptosporidium? 66.244.80.7 (talk) 18:41, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
 * No. Velela (talk) 10:28, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

ozineated??
the Cryptosporidium reproductive cycle can be inhibited with ultraviolet light, or by the water being ozineated

Should this read "ozonated"? Flapdragon 00:10, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

I believe the correct spelling is "ozonation"

As far as I know, one of my parasitology lecturers uses the phrase UV treatment. But we could put in brackets ozonation. Sorush20 21:08, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

Cryptosporidium and Cryptosporidiosis
There was much duplication between these two articles. I have tried to separate these out and post the appropriate information into each. Please feel free to do further tidying but I don't think it appropriate to maintain duplicate information, not least because they said slightly different tbings. Velela 10:53, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

Treatment with Nitazoxanide
Just talked about this in class..I dont have time to add it right now but treatment with nitazoxanide is about a year old option. Fairly new but it is mentioned on the CDC site.

If anyone wants to write it up, here is the source:

Crypto - Redirection
Among campers, hikers, backpackers, and other outdoors people who drink natural sources of water, it's often just called "crypto". Crypto just redirects to the cryptography page. Would it make sense to redirect "crypto" to a disambiguation page that also leads to here? --68.77.17.106 (talk) 19:38, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

Could someone add to the article, with an answer to the following question? If someone has recovered from cryptosporidiosis does this mean that they are then immune if there is a subsequent outbreak? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.71.225.230 (talk) 20:08, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

Excyst?
In "General characteristics," I read "...once ingested, excyst in the small intestine..." -What does excyst mean? Dpattiris (talk) 15:29, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
 * It emerges from the cyst that it has been in and starts to feed and reproduce - bed news for the ingestee essentially. Opposite of encyst. Velela (talk) 10:30, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

Virulence and pathogenicity... 10.1128/CMR.00076-12 JFW &#124; T@lk  22:36, 7 January 2013 (UTC)

Etymology?
It's Latin from Greek, clearly, but what makes it "crypto-"? The "sporidium" part is obvious. Wiktionary needs this too, just FYI. 72.200.151.13 (talk) 08:20, 18 March 2014 (UTC)

Focus of this article is more on disease than the organism
Hey there. I came here to get an overview of the biology, evolution and characteristics of this organism. From a phylogenetic perspective, it is a very peculiar case in the group Apicomplexa, with quite a number of articles about it. However, I don't see any of this reflected in the article (yet)? Furthermore, it seems that the article focusses more on the disease that is caused by Cryptosporidium, than on the organism itself. At first, I thought there might not be an article on the disease itself, but in fact, there is one. Maybe some of the information from the Cryptosporidium article should be moved there, to have a more clear distinction between the disease causing organism and disease itself? If there was interest in improving this article in my suggested way, please let me know. Ilikelifesciences (talk) 12:43, 1 September 2015 (UTC)
 * This is unfortunately still very much the case. Even though the header clarifies that it is supposed to be about the organism, it is primarily about the disease. -Verdatum (talk) 11:58, 26 January 2020 (UTC)

Water treatment and detection bias?
Seems irrelevant/biased to mention who funded the original research the discovered that UV light is an effective treatment for Cryptosporidium in water. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:C3:C202:5330:40E6:65AA:3B4:3198 (talk) 13:15, 12 September 2016 (UTC)

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Hide / Show
Do we need to see all 25 subspecies ? 80.203.87.136 (talk) 20:32, 16 October 2017 (UTC)


 * They are species, not subspecies. Alfa-ketosav (talk) 08:45, 4 July 2024 (UTC)

Exposure route citations?
Hi there! I just wanted to bring attention to the relatively few citations within this section.Stevenovakowski (talk) 06:39, 30 August 2020 (UTC)

Effects of cryptosporidiosis on animals other than mammals
Hi, Cryptosporidium species can infect animals like snakes and other reptiles, but this article only focuses on mammalian infection. Could we please expand it (also with information on Cryptosporidium spp. as biological organisms as suggested earlier)? 108.18.207.147 (talk) 18:43, 6 August 2023 (UTC)

Image of life cycle needs context
The box is a closed loop, but gives no indication of where in the cycle the oocyst initiates the cycle. As a previous contributor has pointed, this page needs to focus on the subject of its title. Cvhorie (talk) 06:13, 21 May 2024 (UTC)