Effective treatments must penetrate both the intestinal cell membrane and the protective layer to reach the parasite inside. In a study, "Cryptosporidium lysyl-tRNA synthetase inhibitors define ...

until recently there have been no effective remedies for infection with intestinal coccidia—Cryptosporidium, Microsporidium and Cyclospora species. Cyclospora respond well to co-trimoxazole ...

which releases invasive sporozoites that enable the parasite to take up an intracellular location in the intestinal epithelial cell. Like cryptosporidiosis, isosporiasis leads to self-limited ...