Cryptosporidiosis occurrence in HIV+ patients attended in a hospital, Brazil

• Main Authors: Paulo César Ribeiro, Edwin Pile, Margareth Maria de Carvalho Queiroz, Antonio Neres Norberg, José Ricardo de Oliveira Tenório
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade de São Paulo
• Series: Revista de Saúde Pública
• Subjects: criptosporidiose; cryptosporidium; infecções por hiv; hiv
• Online Access: http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-89102004000300020&lng=en&tlng=en

Cryptosporidiosis occurrence was determined in HIV+ patient assisted in the Clinic of Infect-parasitic Diseases in a hospital of Nova Iguaçu, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in the period from Juy/1998 to March/1999. In order to research, seventy-five patient, carriers of diarrhea or not, were appraised. The samples of feces were collected and placed in saline solution with formaldehyde (5%). The Modified Ritchie technique was used for the oocysts research, and the smears were stained with Safranine O methylene blue. The results verified 9.33% of positive samples, with higher frequency of cases in patients of the masculine sex from 20 to 50 years old, however without significant difference.