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ReviewRevista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo2019

New insights into the detection and molecular characterization of Cryptosporidium with emphasis in Brazilian studies: a review.

Flavia Souza Cunha, Regina Helena Saramago Peralta, José Mauro Peralta

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In one paragraph

Review in Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
23citing papers in PubMed
6.5field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

23 citing papers in PubMed, 56 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Next-generation molecular tools in veterinary parasitology: advances, challenges, and perspectives in the diagnosis of emerging parasites.Revista brasileira de parasitologia veterinaria = Brazilian journal of veterinary parasitology : Orgao Oficial do Colegio Brasileiro de Parasitologia Veterinaria · 2026
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  3. Molecular and Epidemiological Investigation ofPathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
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  5. Journal of clinical medicine · 2024
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  7. Journal of advanced veterinary and animal research · 2023
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  9. InvestigatingInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2023
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  10. Epidemiology ofMicroorganisms · 2023
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  11. Diagnosis and control of cryptosporidiosis in farm animals.Journal of parasitic diseases : official organ of the Indian Society for Parasitology · 2022
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  18. High Frequency ofPathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Flavia Souza CunhaUniversidade Federal Fluminense, Faculdade de Medicina, Departamento de Patologia, Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Regina Helena Saramago PeraltaUniversidade Federal Fluminense, Faculdade de Medicina, Departamento de Patologia, Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
José Mauro PeraltaUniversidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Instituto de Microbiologia Prof. Paulo de Góes, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2615-4820
Universidade Federal Fluminense · BRUniversidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro · BR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cryptosporidium spp. is a pathogenic protozoan present in the gastrointestinal tract of several hosts. This protozoan was originally classified as within the Coccidia Class and has recently been reclassified to gregarine based on studies that observed the evolutionary phases from the process of excision and sequencing of the 18S rRNA gene. Molecular biology techniques have become diagnostic tools and have also been used to understand the epidemiology of Cryptosporidium spp., since several species of this genus are very similar morphologically and morphometrically. Molecular techniques have been used in the identification of parasites, at the species and subtypes levels and to study disease transmission. The laboratory diagnosis of human cryptosporidiosis can be made by parasite detection methods, such as optical microscopy, antigens or genetic material detection, as well as serum antibodies raised to Cryptosporidium spp. Molecular methods were developed and allowed, not only an extensive revision of the taxonomy, but also an improvement in the laboratory diagnosis. In Brazil, there are few reports of Cryptosporidium spp. outbreaks in humans and all of them took place in nurseries. A few epidemiological studies developed in Brazil have used molecular methods for the detection of Cryptosporidium spp., as well as genotyping studies of their species and subtypes. The use of real-time PCR, together with microscopy and immunochromatography techniques, would result in a more precise diagnosis of cryptosporidiosis. The analysis of genotypes, subtypes and clonality of Cryptosporidium could be useful to understand and define the prognosis and severity of infections.

Indexed as

AnimalsBrazilCryptosporidiosisCryptosporidiumDNA, ProtozoanFecesGenotypeHumansReal-Time Polymerase Chain ReactionRNA, RibosomalSequence Analysis, DNADNA, ProtozoanRNA, Ribosomal

Identifiers

PMID31241657
PMCPMC6592014
OpenAlexW2949695952

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