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Causes of Cryptosporiosis

Contents

Cryptosporiosis: Introduction
Primary Cause of Cryptosporiosis
Risk factors
Causes of symptoms
News
Related cause information

Primary Cause of Cryptosporiosis

The primary cause of Cryptosporiosis is the result:

of eating food from an animal infected with an infectious agent, or from food that is contaminated from the food handler (who is infected with Cryptosporiosis), or from contaminated soil or water, or from toxins produced by an infectious organism.
of transmission of an infectious agent by another person by one or more of the following: saliva, air, cough, fecal-oral route, surfaces, blood, needles, blood transfusions, sexual contact, mother to fetus, etc.

Cryptosporiosis Causes: Risk Factors

The following conditions have been cited in various sources as potentially causal risk factors related to Cryptosporiosis:

International travel
Young children
Male homosexuals
Exposure to patients with Cryptosporiosis
Immunocompromise
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Cryptosporiosis: Related Medical Conditions

To research the causes of Cryptosporiosis, consider researching the causes of these these diseases that may be similar, or associated with Cryptosporiosis:

Biliary cryptosporidiosis
Calf scours
Slim disease
Cryptosporidium parvum
C parvum
Cryptosporidium hominis
C hominis
Cryptosporidia
Apicomplexa protozoan
Diarrhea
Abdominal cramps
Low-grade fever
Acalculous cholecystitis
Sclerosing cholangitis
Papillary stenosis
Pancreatitis

Cryptosporiosis: Causes and Types

Causes of Broader Categories of Cryptosporiosis: Review the causal information about the various more general categories of medical conditions:

Cryptosporiosis as a symptom:

Conditions listing Cryptosporiosis as a symptom may also be potential underlying causes of Cryptosporiosis. Our database lists the following as having Cryptosporiosis as a symptom of that condition: