Significance of Cryptosporidium as an aetiology of acute infectious diarrhoea in elderly Indians

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 415-419

  Gambhir, I S ^a   Jaiswal, J P ^a   Nath, G ^a  

^a BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Acute diarrhoea; Cryptosporidium; Elderly; India

Indexed keywords

DIARRHEAL DISEASE; DISEASE PREVALENCE; ELDERLY POPULATION; RISK FACTOR;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE DIARRHEA; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; DIARRHEA; DISEASE COURSE; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FEVER; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HUMAN; MALE; VOMITING;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DIARRHEA; FECES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; SEASONS;

INDIA;

ANIMALIA; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0038003941     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3156.2003.01031.x     Document Type: Article

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