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Environmental Biology Team Discovers Treatment for Water-Borne Disease
September 17, 2008
University of Guelph scientists believe they've uncovered a promising treatment for one of the world's most common water-borne diseases. They discovered an antibody used to detect the parasite Cryptosporidium parvum, which causes cryptosporidiosis, can also be used to fight off the bug itself.
The findings by a team of environmental biology professors -- Hung Lee and Chris Hall -- and former graduate students -- Nicholas Pokorny and Jeanine Boulter-Bitzer -- were recently published in the microbiology journal Antonie van Leeuwenhoek.
