Sobieh M, Tacal J V, Wilcke B W, Lawrence W, el-Ahraf A
Department of Health Science and Human Ecology, California State University, San Bernardino 92407.
J Am Vet Med Assoc. 1987 Oct 1;191(7):816-8.
Cryptosporidium is a protozoan parasite that inhabits the intestinal epithelium of calves, lambs, foals, pigs, and poultry. Of the 500 calves studied, 95 calves had diarrhea and 20 (21.05%) of those were infected with Cryptosporidium; only 8 (1.9%) of the remaining 405 nondiarrheic calves had Cryptosporidium oocysts in their feces.