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Publication Type: Abstract Only Publication Acceptance Date: 4/29/2014 Publication Date: 6/4/2014 Citation: Santin, M. 2014. Zoonotic waterborne protozoan in cattle. Meeting Abstract. Abstract presented at 3rd Pan-American & 8th Artentina Congress of Zoonoses, La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina. June 4-6, 2014. Interpretive Summary: Technical Abstract: Waterborne protozoan diseases have a worldwide distribution affecting both developed and developing countries. In developing countries, contamination of drinking water with protozoan pathogens poses a serious threat to millions of people that live without access to healthy water. In developed countries, outbreaks of diarrheal diseases caused by protozoan parasites are still frequent. This presentation reviews relevant information not only for the most prevalent waterborne parasites, Cryptosporidium and Giardia duodenalis, but also for the less known Enterocytozoon bieneusi and Blastocystis. All of these parasites have in common to be important disease-causing agents and satisfy the three criteria to be classified as priority waterborne zoonotic pathogens associated with livestock populations: 1. Capacity to induce clinical illness in susceptible humans, 2. Capability to be transmitted to humans through water, and 3. Prevalence in a biological reservoir host including one or more livestock species. |
