Detection of zoonotic Cryptosporidium spp. in small wild rodents using amplicon-based next-generation sequencing

Rodent-adapted Cryptosporidium infection in humans: Seven new cases and review of the literature

“…The vast majority of C. ditrichi sequences in the NCBI Database are from various species of Apodemus , typically, Apodemus flavicollis sampled all over Europe from Latvia and Finland to France and Spain [ 40 , 41 ] ( Suppl. Table 1 ), and it was by far the most common species detected in murids and cricetids sampled in the wild in Denmark in a recent survey [ 42 ]. C. ditrichi was also found in a beech marten sampled in Poland [ 43 ].…”