[Acute infant diarrhea associated to Cryptosporidium sp., in the city of Recife].
From February through June 1990 the frequency of Cryptosporidium sp. among 156 infants with acute diarrhea and 80 controls were analyzed. The study was carried out in the Hospital Geral de Pediatria do Instituto Materno-Infantil de Pernambuco. Cryptosporidium sp. was detected in 6.4% of infants with diarrhea; it was not found in the controls. The clinical patterns and the disease evolution were the same in the infants Cryptosporidium-positive and Cryptosporidium-negative.
da Silva
G A
GA
Pediatria do CCS/UFPe.
Magalhães
M
M
de Oliveira
A M
AM
Melo
V M
VM