Cryptosporidiosis among patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) in the county of São Paulo, Brazil

Dias, Rosa Maria Donini Souza; Mangini, Ana Célia Steffen; Torres, Domingas M. A. G. Vieira; Corrêa, M. O. A.; Lupetti, Norival; Corrêa, Fernando M.A.; Chieffi, Pedro Paulo

doi:10.1590/s0036-46651988000400011

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“…Other data from Africa indicated Cryptosporidium-positive rates in AIDS patients of 15% (105) and 13.1% (154). One study from a hospital in Brazil reported that 12% of the AIDS patients with diarrhea had Cryptosporidium-positive stools (91). Another report from Mexico indicated that 16.7% of children with AIDS had cryptosporidiosis (17 …”

Section: Waterborne Transmissionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Cryptosporidiosis

1991

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Before 1982, only eight case reports of human cryptosporidiosis and fewer than 30 papers on Cryptosporidium spp. appeared in the biomedical literature. At that time, cryptosporidiosis was thought to be an infrequent infection in animals and rarely an opportunistic infection in humans. The concept of Cryptosporidium spp. as pathogens has changed dramatically within the past 8 years because of improved diagnostic techniques, increased awareness within the biomedical community, and the development of basic research programs in numerous laboratories. Presently, greater than 1,000 publications including over 400 case reports in the biomedical literature address Cryptosporidium spp. and cryptosporidiosis. Cryptosporidium parvum is now thought to be one of the three most common enteropathogens causing diarrheal illness in humans worldwide, especially in developing countries. It is likely that cryptosporidiosis was previously included in the 25 to 35% of diarrheal illness with unknown etiology. Because of the severity and length of diarrheal illness and because no effective therapy has been identified, cryptosporidiosis is one of the most ominous infections associated with AIDS. The role of C. parvum as an enteropathogen is well established; documentation of its role as a cause of hepatobiliary and respiratory diseases is now appearing in the literature. Our present understanding of the natural history, epidemiology, biology, and immunology of Cryptosporidium spp. as well as the clinical features, pathogenicity, and treatment of cryptosporidiosis are reviewed here.

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Section: Waterborne Transmissionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Cryptosporidiosis

1991

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“…In Brazil cryptosporidiosis has been found in aids patients 3,6 and even in other kind of immunosuppressed patients 2 . It has also been diagnosed in non-immunocompromised people, with or without diarrhoeal faeces 4,8,9,14 .…”

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Infection by Cryptosporidium sp. in immunocompromised haematological patients

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Rev. Inst. Med. trop. S. Paulo

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The frequency of intestinal infection by Cryptosporidium sp. was determined in 60 patients, attended at the Haematological and Haemotherapeutical Service of "Santa Casa de Misericórdia" of São Paulo, suffering lymphoproliferative diseases (Group 1). As control group (Group 2) 59 persons without haematological diseases, but with the same life time and living at the same place of that of haematological patients, had been examined. The stool parasitological tests performed disclosed Cryptosporidium sp. oocysts in six (10%) individuals belonging to Group 1, whereas, in Group 2, nobody showed infection by this coccidian. Among the patients infected by Cryptosporidium sp. only one showed diarrhoeal faeces.

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“…In two hospitals in Great Britain and Brazil, 11 and 12% of AIDS patients, respectively, had cryptosporidiosis, and 19% of those in Great Britain were thought to have died as a direct result (33,64). In a series from Paris, 21.1% of 132 prospectively studied AIDS patients were infected with Cryptcsporidium, the most frequent enteropathogen identified (65).…”

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Diagnosis of AIDS-Related Intestinal Parasites

Ungar¹

1990

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Cryptosporidiosis among patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) in the county of São Paulo, Brazil

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