Cryptosporidiosis in southern Sweden.
Two different groups of patients with diarrhoea, altogether 1,478 individuals, were examined for cryptosporidium oocysts. The technique used was feces concentration and staining according to a modified Ziehl-Neelsen method. 20 cases of cryptosporidiosis (3%) were found among 698 consecutive patients with acute gastroenteritis. In feces samples sent for parasitological examination from 780 patients, cryptosporidia were found on 9 occasions (1%). None of 519 healthy persons excreted cryptosporidia. 19/29 patients with cryptosporidiosis had recently been abroad and in 8 of these additional enteric pathogens were found. The median duration of diarrhoea was 14 days. All patients except 1 were cryptosporidia-negative in faeces within 2 months. An immunosuppressed patient excreted cryptosporidia for 14 months.
D000367:Age Factors; D000818:Animals; D002353:Carrier State / Q000453:epidemiology; D003457:Cryptosporidiosis / Q000453:epidemiology*; D003458:Cryptosporidium / Q000302:isolation & purification; D003967:Diarrhea / Q000209:etiology*; D005243:Feces / Q000469:parasitology; D005260:Female; D005759:Gastroenteritis / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013548:Sweden