Cryptosporidiosis: a cause of summer diarrhea in children.
Recent studies have suggested that some outbreaks of diarrhea in children may be caused by Cryptosporidium, a parasite associated with gastrointestinal and respiratory tract infection in animals. In a study of 7300 British Columbia patients with diarrhea, cryptosporidial oocysts were found in the stool samples of 46 (0.63%). It appears that the occurrence of cryptosporidiosis is related to three factors: the patient's age, the time of year and the geographic location.
D000293:Adolescent; D000367:Age Factors; D000818:Animals; D001955:British Columbia; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003457:Cryptosporidiosis / Q000150:complications* / Q000453:epidemiology; D003458:Cryptosporidium / Q000302:isolation & purification; D003967:Diarrhea / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology*; D005243:Feces / Q000469:parasitology; D006801:Humans; D012621:Seasons