Excessive watery diarrhoea and pronounced fatigue due to Cyclospora cayetanensis infection in an HIV-infected traveller returning from the tropics;Exzessive wassrige diarrhoe und leistungsminderung durch eine Cyclospora-cayetanensis-infektion bei einem HIV-infizierten tropenaufenthalter

Schweizerische Medizinische Wochenschrift

Volumn 129, Issue 33, 1999, Pages 1158-1161

  Mosimann, M ^a   Nguyen, X M ^b   Furrer, Hj ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cotrimoxazole; Cyclospora cayetanensis; Diarrhoea; Fatigue; HIV infection; Returning traveller; Traveller's diarrhoea

Indexed keywords

COTRIMOXAZOLE;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMORBIDITY; CYCLOSPORA CAYETANENSIS; FECES ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MALE; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; TRAVELLER DIARRHEA; AIDS RELATED COMPLEX; ANIMAL; COCCIDIA; COCCIDIOSIS; DIARRHEA; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; MIDDLE AGED; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SOUTHEAST ASIA; SWITZERLAND; TRAVEL; TROPIC CLIMATE;

AIDS-RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; ANIMALS; ASIA, SOUTHEASTERN; COCCIDIOSIS; DIARRHEA; EUCOCCIDIIDA; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HIV-1; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; SWITZERLAND; TRAVEL; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 0033591981     PISSN: 00367672     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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