How to Use cryptosporidium in a Sentence

cryptosporidium

noun

• Hard to kill Standard chlorine takes a long time to kill the cryptosporidium bacteria.
  — Agnel Philip, azcentral, 26 May 2018
• Oocysts of cryptosporidium stained using the Ziehl-Nielson stain.
  — Rebecca Kreston, Discover Magazine, 26 May 2014
• Outbreaks of the parasite cryptosporidium, known as crypto, have increased year after year, the CDC says in a new report.
  — Julie Mazziotta, PEOPLE.com, 28 June 2019
• One of the top causes of post-swim illness is a parasite called cryptosporidium (crypto for short), which leads to diarrhea, stomach pain and nausea.
  — Dr. Roshini Raj, Health.com, 23 May 2018
• Most cases involved pools and hot tubs and a very specific parasite known as cryptosporidium.
  — N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA TODAY, 27 June 2019
• The CDC also warned people to be aware of pool water that might be contaminated with a parasite called cryptosporidium that can give you diarrhea for as long as three weeks.
  — Doug Criss, CNN, 19 May 2017
• Pool or hot tub water that contains cryptosporidium can often cause gastrointestinal illness — and in rare cases, even death, the CDC noted.
  — Lauren Rearick, Teen Vogue, 18 May 2018
• And though pool water is usually treated with chemicals and chlorine, The New York Times explained that there's a bacteria called cryptosporidium that can outlast all of that and hide in the water for nearly a week.
  — Lauren Rearick, Teen Vogue, 18 May 2018
• If you have been diagnosed with cryptosporidium, don't go back in the water until two weeks after diarrhea has completely stopped.
  — Rachel Trent, CNN, 3 July 2021
• Also detected in some of the wells during April testing were illness-causing pathogens such as salmonella, rotavirus and cryptosporidium.
  — USA TODAY, 2 Aug. 2019
• Olympic National Park recommends you either boil or filter water before drinking it (treating the coastal water sources with iodine or chlorine will not kill the cryptosporidium).
  — oregonlive, 23 June 2021
• In the past two years, outbreaks of cryptosporidiosis, a parasitic disease caused by the bacteria cryptosporidium, have affected hundreds of people.
  — Agnel Philip, azcentral, 26 May 2018
• Lab results showed dogs that visit dog parks were more likely to test positive for two common parasites (giardia and cryptosporidium) than non-dog park-attending dogs.
  — Kristen Kidd, The Denver Post, 16 Apr. 2017
• The water bureau’s current plans for the plant in technology to remove cryptosporidium from the drinking water, two pipelines going to and from the facility, a daily capacity of 145 million gallons of water per day.
  — oregonlive, 27 Nov. 2019
• Later, the battleground moved to microbes, viruses and parasites such as giardia and cryptosporidium.
  — Andrew Maykuth, Philly.com, 18 Aug. 2017
• Water systems must test for and treat harmful waterborne pathogens such as giardia and cryptosporidium parasites that can cause intestinal distress.
  — Ken Alltucker, azcentral, 3 May 2017
• The city wants to have the new water treatment plant operational by 2027 in order to comply with federal drinking water regulations to filter out the parasite cryptosporidium and other contaminates.
  — oregonlive, 27 Nov. 2019
• Children playing in the yard and adults gardening are particularly at risk of picking up diseases and parasites like campylobacteriosis, cryptosporidium and toxocariasis, the agency warns.
  — Dallas News, 3 May 2022
• One gram of dog poop can contain up to 23 million fecal coliform bacteria, and dog poop is also a common carrier of whipworms, hookworms, roundworms, parvo, coronavirus, giardia, salmonella, cryptosporidium, and campylobacter.
  — Wes Siler, Outside Online, 27 Mar. 2018
• The pathogens, toxoplasma gondii, cryptosporidium parvum and giardia enterica, end up in waterways when feces from infected animals contaminate the water.
  — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 28 Apr. 2022
• The infections occur when swimmers ingest water contaminated by diarrhea from a person infected by cryptosporidium, a parasite that is notoriously difficult to kill.
  — Washington Post, 21 May 2017
• Raw, unpasteurized milk can harbor germs like listeria, salmonella, campylobacter or cryptosporidium.
  — Rachel Meltzer Warren, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2020

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024