Parasitic infections in AIDS patients. Cryptosporidiosis, isosporiasis, microsporidiosis, cyclosporiasis.
AIDS is characteristically associated with several intracellular enteric protozoan infections that often cause chronic and sometimes fatal intractable large-volume diarrhea. Until the AIDS epidemic, several of these parasitic infections were almost unknown as causes of human disease. This article reviews the diseases produced by cryptosporidia, isospora, cyclospora, and microsporidia in humans.
Wittner
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Department of Parasitology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York.
Tanowitz
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Weiss
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D017088:AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections; D000328:Adult; D000818:Animals; D003048:Coccidiosis / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000473:pathology; D003316:Corneal Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000469:parasitology; D003457:Cryptosporidiosis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000469:parasitology; D003967:Diarrhea / Q000469:parasitology; D016783:Eucoccidiida; D015822:Eye Infections, Parasitic / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000469:parasitology; D006801:Humans; D007549:Isospora; D008297:Male; D016816:Microsporida / Q000302:isolation & purification; D016881:Microsporidiosis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000469:parasitology