Researchers examined the nonacute effects of diarrhea caused by Cryptosporidium infection in young children and found that it decreased their growth and increased the risk of subsequent infectious disease.

“Our findings show that the previously reported burden of Cryptosporidium was an underestimation of the true burden,” Ibrahim A. Khalil, MD, of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington in Seattle, and colleagues wrote in The Lancet Global Health.