       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

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