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[Cryptosporidium: outbreak at a nutrition rehabilitation center, Temuco]
T Vidal1, C Gamboa, M I Henríquez
1Servicio de Pediatría, Hospital Regional de Temuco, Chile.
Revista Medica De Chile
|October 1, 1991
Abstract:
Cryptosporidiosis was observed in 23 undernourished infants of a nutritional center in Temuco. This represents a 34% incidence rate for the period (march to may 1990). Liquid stools (91%), vomiting (39%), resistance to feeding (74%), respiratory symptoms (61%) and weight loss (mean 25 g per day) were the main clinical manifestations. Only 9 patients received specific therapy and all showed clinical improvement and normalization of stool examinations within the study period.