Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Cryptosporiosis
- Causative Organism
- Cryptosporidium
- Incubation Period
- 1 to 12 days
- Controls & Prevention
- Controls
- Cases treated
with re-hydration
- Exclude Symptomatic from
food handling or medical
work until asymptomatic
- Avoid swimming in
public pools for 2
weeks after diarrhoea
has stopped
- Prevention
- Encourage good personal
hygiene, especially following
contact with animals or
infected persons
- Filter or boil
contaminated
drinking water
- Period of Communicability
- May be infectious for
as long as oocysts are
present in stool
- Asymptomatic
excretion may persist
for several weeks after
symptoms resolve
- Mode of Transmission
- Faecal-Oral
- Signs & Symptoms
- Watery Diarrhoea
- Nausea
- Vommitting
- Abdominal Pain
- Dehydration
- Lack of Appetite
- Fever