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[Cryptosporidiosis and HIV in Abidjan (Ivory Coast)]
A Assoumou1, M Kone, L K Penali
1Laboratoire de Parasitologie de la Faculté de Médecine, Institut Pasteur.
Bulletin De La Societe De Pathologie Exotique (1990)
|January 1, 1993
Abstract:
A coprological study realized with 217 HIV adult subjects has allowed to evaluate the frequency of the cryptosporidiosis during this affection in Abidjan. Cryptosporidium sp. has been found in 8.7% of the subjects. Otherwise 78.9% of the patients had a chronic diarrhoea. 89.4% showed an abdominal pain and were dehydrated 94.7% had lost weight and 21% had nausea or vomiting.