ORTEGA, Ynes R.
2 entries in the GMN corpus.
1993
#12435
Cyclospora species - A new protozoan pathogen of humans.
Ortega and colleagues identified a novel parasite resembling C. muris in the feces of Peruvian patients and 2 U.S. patients, with symptoms resembling those of infections with Cryptosporidium. The parasite infected bot…
1994
#12436
A new coccidian parasite (Apicomplexa: Eimeriidae) from humans.
Based on very high magnification electron transmission micrographs and contrast microscopy, Ortega and colleagues fully characterized the parasite and named it Cyclospora cayetanensis n. sp., naming it after Universid…