title: Enteric parasites and AIDS.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To report on the importance of intestinal parasites in patients with AIDS, showing relevant data in the medical literature, with special emphasis on epidemiology, diagnosis and treatment of enteroparasitosis, especially cryptosporidiosis, isosporiasis, microsporidiasis and strongyloidiasis.
  
  
  METHODS
  Narrative review.
authors.affiliation: Instituto de Infectologia Emílio Ribas, Universidade Federal de São Paulo/Escola Paulista de Medicina, Brazil. sc@mandic.com.br
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Cimerman
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Cimerman
authors.forename: D S
authors.initials: DS
authors.lastname: Lewi
mesh_terms: D017088:AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections / Q000453:epidemiology*; D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / Q000453:epidemiology*; D000562:Amebiasis / Q000453:epidemiology; D000818:Animals; D003048:Coccidiosis / Q000453:epidemiology; D003457:Cryptosporidiosis / Q000453:epidemiology; D005873:Giardiasis / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D007411:Intestinal Diseases, Parasitic / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology*; D007549:Isospora; D008297:Male; D015995:Prevalence; D013322:Strongyloidiasis / Q000453:epidemiology