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- Document 1001
- DOCN M9651001
- TI Cyclospora cayetanensis infection in patients with and without AIDS:
- biliary disease as another clinical manifestation.
- DT 9505
- AU Sifuentes-Osornio J; Porras-Cortes G; Bendall RP; Morales-Villarreal F;
- Reyes-Teran G; Ruiz-Palacios GM; Department of Infectious Diseases,
- Instituto Nacional de la; Nutricion Salvador Zubiran, Mexico City,
- Mexico.
- SO Clin Infect Dis. 1995 Nov;21(5):1092-7. Unique Identifier : AIDSLINE
- MED/96125987
- AB We describe patients with and without AIDS who had Cyclospora
- cayetanensis infection; these patients were seen at a tertiary care
- teaching hospital in Mexico City because of diarrheal disease. C.
- cayetanensis was detected by examination of fresh fecal preparations and
- acid-fast staining of fecal smears; the presence of other bacteria and
- parasites was excluded by standard methods. Fecal specimens from 12
- patients contained C. cayetanensis. The overall mean duration of illness
- was 94 days. Seven of the 12 patients had AIDS; these patients presented
- with more weight loss than did patients without AIDS (P = .04). The
- patients with AIDS also tended to have a more prolonged illness. Two
- patients with AIDS had biliary disease that resolved when they received
- therapy with trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole for cyclospora infection; the
- excretion of oocysts also ceased. Our data confirm that C. cayetanensis
- causes diarrhea in humans and a significant weight loss in patients with
- AIDS. In addition, Cyclospora could be involved in biliary disease in
- patients with AIDS.
- DE Adult Aged Animal AIDS-Related Opportunistic
- Infections/*COMPLICATIONS/*DIAGNOSIS/ PARASITOLOGY Biliary Tract
- Diseases/*COMPLICATIONS/PARASITOLOGY/ ULTRASONOGRAPHY
- Coccidia/ISOLATION & PURIF/PATHOGENICITY
- Coccidiosis/*COMPLICATIONS/*DIAGNOSIS/PARASITOLOGY
- Diarrhea/COMPLICATIONS/PARASITOLOGY Feces/PARASITOLOGY Female Human
- Male Mexico Middle Age Trimethoprim-Sulfamethoxazole
- Combination/THERAPEUTIC USE Weight Loss JOURNAL ARTICLE
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- SOURCE: National Library of Medicine. NOTICE: This material may be
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