Working horses support the livelihoods of smallholder farmers in Egypt. No previous study has investigated the prevalence of cryptosporidiosis in working horses in Egypt. Faecal samples were collected from 607 working horses recruited from thirty-seven villages/areas in two Egyptian governorates and examined for Cryptosporidium spp. infection using the modified Zielh-Neelsen staining technique. Data on signalment, history of r...

Summary The three protozoan species C ryptosporidium parvum , C . meleagridis and C . hominis (phylum A picomplexa ) are enteric pathogens of humans. The former two species are zoonotic and the latter is thought to infect only humans. To better characterize the structure and transmission of natural and laboratory‐propagated isolates, we analyzed a collection of archived human and animal isolates of these three species by deep‐...