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	Podcast:		Microbe Talk
	Episode:		Microbe Talk Extra: Cryptosporidium
	Category:		Science & Medicine
	Duration:		00:11:18
	Publish Date:		2015-10-19 04:27:51
	Description:		This summer, many people living in Lancashire were forced to boil their drinking and cooking water, after an outbreak of a parasite that can cause a nasty bout of stomach cramps and diarrhoea. This outbreak was caused by the protozoan Cryptosporidium, a water-borne parasite that can cause a potentially life-threatening infection in the very young or the immunocompromised. To learn more about Cryptosporidium we spoke to Christopher Miller, a PhD student at the University of Kent, who is looking at ways to better culture this poorly-understood parasite. Image credit: Steve Johnson on Flickr under CC BY 2.0
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