Cryptosporidiosis in patients at a large teaching hospital.
In 1984, all stool samples submitted to a microbiology laboratory (n = 2,197) from a predominantly hospital-based population were examined for Cryptosporidium oocysts after Ziehl-Neelsen staining, but only 0.5% were positive. We suggest that in low-incidence areas, individual laboratories examine stool samples for this organism only in immunosuppressed patients and those in whom symptoms persist.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003044:Coccidia / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D003457:Cryptosporidiosis / Q000453:epidemiology*; D003458:Cryptosporidium / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D003967:Diarrhea / Q000469:parasitology*; D005243:Feces / Q000469:parasitology*; D005260:Female; D006784:Hospitals, Teaching; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male