Epidemiological and clinical features of travel-associated cryptosporidiosis.
Data concerning the clinical and epidemiological features of travel-associated cryptosporidiosis are lacking. In order to investigate the impact of this disease on travellers' health, a retrospective study was conducted at the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Berlin. In total, 57 cryptosporidial infections were identified between 2000 and 2004, resulting in a prevalence of 2.9% in patients with travel-associated diarrhoea. Travel to south-central Asia, especially India, was associated with a higher prevalence of infection than was travel to other destinations. Clinically, the disease resembled giardiasis, but fever and arthralgias seemed to occur more frequently.
Weitzel
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Institute of Tropical Medicine, Charité, University Medicine Berlin, Berlin, Germany. thomas.weitzel@charite.de
Wichmann
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Mühlberger
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Reuter
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Hoof
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Jelinek
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D000818:Animals; D003457:Cryptosporidiosis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000469:parasitology / Q000503:physiopathology*; D003967:Diarrhea / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000469:parasitology / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D007194:India; D012307:Risk Factors; D014195:Travel