Cryptosporidial enteritis and pneumocystis pneumonia in a homosexual man.
The case of a 44-year-old homosexual man with cryptosporidial enteritis associated with multiple opportunistic infections and increased T-suppressor cells is reported. This case calls attention to cryptosporidia as the cause of unremitting diarrhea in homosexual men with the syndrome of opportunistic infectious disease associated with acquired immunodeficiency.
D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / Q000209:etiology; D000328:Adult; D003044:Coccidia / Q000254:growth & development / Q000648:ultrastructure; D003048:Coccidiosis / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology*; D004751:Enteritis / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology*; D006716:Homosexuality; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011020:Pneumonia, Pneumocystis / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology*