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Document 0063
DOCN M9630063
TI [Annual frequency of Cryptosporidium parvum infections in children and
adult outpatients, and adults infected by HIV]
DT 9603
AU Mercado R; Garcia M; Departamento de Parasitologia, Facultad de Medicina
(Campus; Norte), Universidad de Chile, Santiago de Chile.
SO Rev Med Chil. 1995 Apr;123(4):479-84. Unique Identifier : AIDSLINE
MED/96041683
AB We report the analysis of 4892 parasitological stool samples coming from
outpatients and patients of a nutritional recuperation center of north
Santiago. Cryptosporidium parvum was detected in 21 samples (0.4%). The
protozoan was detected in 6 of 1203 samples from children of less than 2
years old, 3 of 1.727 samples from children between 6 and 15 years, none
of 776 samples from healthy adults and 2 of 13 samples from HIV infected
patients. Nine of 97 children of less than 2 years old, hospitalized in
the nutritional recuperation center, were infected with Cryptosporidium;
this frequency was significantly higher than that of outpatients of the
same age. Most infections were detected from May to August, a rainy and
mildly cold period. It is concluded that Cryptosporidium infections are
infrequent in healthy outpatients and that its prevalence increased in
hospitalized children and HIV infected adults.
DE Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome/COMPLICATIONS Adolescence Adult
Analysis of Variance Child Child, Preschool Chile/EPIDEMIOLOGY
Cryptosporidiosis/COMPLICATIONS/*EPIDEMIOLOGY English Abstract
Feces/PARASITOLOGY Female Human Infant Male Outpatients JOURNAL
ARTICLE
SOURCE: National Library of Medicine. NOTICE: This material may be
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