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[Chronic diarrhea and parasitoses in adults suspected of AIDS in the Ivory Coast]

Bull Soc Pathol Exot Filiales. 1989;82(5):690-3. Unique Identifier : AIDSLINE MED/90227781
Therizol-Ferly PM; Tagliante-Saracino J; Kone M; Konan A; Ouhon J; Assoumou A; Aka K; Assale G; Laboratoire de Parasitologie-Mycologie, CHU de Cocody.

Abstract: 148 adult patients with chronic diarrhoea and suspected to be HIV infected have had stool examinations. 46 are without any enteric parasite. Those detected in the others patients are Sporozoans: I. belli (16.2%) and Cryptosporidium sp. (6.7%) found alone or joint, together or with other parasites. Among those, all Flagellate species are identified, but T. intestinalis (6%) is predominant. Entamoeba coli (8.%) is the most frequent amebic species, however, E. histolytica histolytica have been found twice, once singly, the second associated with I. belli, Schistosoma mansoni and Candida albicans. Necator americanus (14%) and Strongyloides stercoralis (12%) are the predominant worm species. Among the yeasts, C. albicans (35.8%) is the most important species isolated, singly in 13.5% of the patients. In an intertropical and parasitical endemic area where many parasites are not considered uncommon, opportunist agents as I. belli, Cryptosporidium sp. and C. albicans appear in an non-negligible frequency in our study.
Keywords: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome/*COMPLICATIONS Adult Animal Candida albicans/ISOLATION & PURIF Chronic Disease Cote d'Ivoire Cryptosporidium/ISOLATION & PURIF Diarrhea/*ETIOLOGY/MICROBIOLOGY/PARASITOLOGY English Abstract Entamoeba/ISOLATION & PURIF Feces/MICROBIOLOGY/PARASITOLOGY Human Isospora/ISOLATION & PURIF Trichomonas/ISOLATION & PURIF JOURNAL ARTICLEKWDacquiredimmunodeficiencysyndrome/KWDcomplicationsadultanimalcandidaalbicans/isolation&purifchronicdiseasecoted'ivoirecryptosporidium/isolation&purifdiarrhea/KWDetiology/microbiology/parasitologyenglishabstractentamoeba/isolation&puriffeces/microbiology/parasitologyhumanisospora/isolation&puriftrichomonas/isolation&purifjournalarticle
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