Intestinal Coccidia in Cuban Pediatric Patients with Diarrhea

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

Volumn 98, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 539-542

  Nunez F A ^a   Gonzalez O M ^b   Gonzalez I ^a   Escobedo, A A ^c   Cordovi R A ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE MEDICINA TROPICAL PEDRO KOURÍ   (Cuba)

^b Hosp Univ Pediatrico del Cerro   (Cuba)

^c INSTITUTO DE GASTROENTEROLOGÍA   (Cuba)

Author keywords

Cryptosporidium spp.; Cuba; Cyclospora cayetanensis; Diarrhea; Intestinal parasites; Pediatrics patients

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL CRAMP; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CHILD; COCCIDIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CUBA; CYCLOSPORA CAYETANENSIS; CYCLOSPORIASIS; DIARRHEA; DISEASE DURATION; EVALUATION; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTESTINE PARASITE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE; PATHOGENESIS; PATIENT; PEDIATRIC HOSPITAL; SPECIES; WARD; ANIMAL; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CYCLOSPORA; FECES; INFANT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; NEWBORN; PARASITOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

COCCIDIA; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CYCLOSPORA; CYCLOSPORA CAYETANENSIS;

ANIMALS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CUBA; CYCLOSPORA; CYCLOSPORIASIS; DIARRHEA; FECES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE;

EID: 0142152230     PISSN: 00740276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762003000400021     Document Type: Article

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