Romeo Toriro, Scott Pallett, Stephen Woolley, Charlie Bennett, Isra Hale, Jennifer Heylings, Daniel Wilkins, Thomas Connelly, Kennedy Muia, Patrick Avery, Andrew Stuart, Laura Morgan, Mark Davies, William Nevin, Oliver Quantick, Guy Robinson, Kristin Elwin, Rachel Chalmers, Daniel Burns, Nicholas Beeching, Thomas Fletcher, Matthew O'Shea
BACKGROUND: We report clinical, epidemiological, and laboratory features of a large diarrhea outbreak caused by a novel Cryptosporidium hominis subtype during British military training in Kenya between February and April 2022. METHODS: Data were collated from diarrhea cases, and fecal samples were analyzed on site using the multiplex polymerase chain reaction (PCR) BioFire FilmArray. Water was tested using Colilert kits (IDEXX, UK). DNA was extracted from feces for molecular characterization of Cryptosporidium A135 , Lib13 , ssu rRNA , and gp60 genes...
January 2024: Open Forum Infectious Diseases