Infection by Cryptosporidium sp. in immunocompromised haematological patients

Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo - Tập 47 Số 5 - Trang 301-302 - 2005
Pedro Paulo Chieffi1, Maria Aparecida Paschoalotti2, Carmen Silvia Vieitas Vergueiro2, Carlos Chiattone2
1Instituto de Medicina Tropical de S. Paulo, Brasil; Sta. Casa de São Paulo, Brasil
2Sta. Casa de São Paulo, Brasil

Tóm tắt

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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