ABSTRACT
Les protozooses intestinales sont des affections dues a la presence dans le tube digestif d'animaux unicellulaires; parasites ou saprophytes. Parmi elles; l'amibiase et a moindre degre la giardiase; ont ete longtemps les plus importantes. Mais depuis l'avenement du SIDA; certaines coccidioses intestinales comme la cryptosporidiose et l'isosporose occupent une place preponderante par leur frequence et leur gravite chez les sujets porteurs du virus HIV
Subject(s)
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome , Intestinal Diseases , Intestinal Diseases/epidemiology , Protozoan Infections/epidemiologyABSTRACT
Cryptosporidium accounted for 9 (4.3 percent) of cases of gastroenteritis among 208 children with diarrhea attending an Under Five out-patient clinic at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital; but was not excreted by 96 children without diarrhea. It was second only to rotavirus (41.7 percent of cases) in causing gastroenteritis. Breast feeding apparently did not provide complete protection against cryptosporidiosis. In a prospective survey the safarin methylene blue and flourescent auramine phenol staining techniques had the same sensitivity (85 percent) and specificity (100 percent)