PROTOZOA PROVES DIFFICULT PARASITE TO TEST FOR, TRACE.(LIFE) From: The News & Record (Piedmont Triad, NC) | Date: August 14, 1996| Author: Pratt, Steven | COPYRIGHT 1996 News & Record. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Byline: STEVEN PRATT Knight-Ridder News Service

Only in the last decade has cyclospora, which in transmitted through contaminated food or water, been recognized as a threat to health.

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Most of the guests felt ill after a Lake Forest, Ill., dinner party in late May, but it took one woman's persistent complaints and a specialist in parasitic diseases to diagnose the group had been infected by the emerging protozoa Cyclospora caytenneis. ...

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