Cryptosporidiosis in young children suffering from diarrhoea in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
A one-year study of patients (0-120 months of age) with diarrhoea at King Abdel-Aziz University Hospital (KAUH) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, detected two cases of cryptosporidiosis. Stool specimens from 174 children with diarrhoea and negative for other parasitic infection were examined using a safranin-methylene blue stain (S-MB). Two children (L.1%) were showing Cryptosporidium oocysts. None of 50 control children who did not have diarrhoea and was free of Giardia lamblia was Cryptosporidium positive.
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Dept. of Pathology, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
D000818:Animals; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003457:Cryptosporidiosis / Q000150:complications* / Q000453:epidemiology; D003458:Cryptosporidium / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D003967:Diarrhea / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000469:parasitology*; D005243:Feces / Q000469:parasitology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D012529:Saudi Arabia / Q000453:epidemiology