Short report: Asymptomatic cryptosporidium hominis infection among human immundeficiency virus-infected patients in Tanzania

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 520-522

  Houpt, Eric R ^a   Bushen, Oluma Y ^a   Sam, Noel E ^b   Kohli, Anita ^a   Asgharpour, Amon ^a   Ng, Cherie T ^a   Calfee, David P ^c   Guerrant, Richard L ^a   Maro, Venance ^b   Ole Nguyaine, Sendui ^b   Shao, John F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b KILIMANJARO CHRISTIAN MEDICAL CENTRE   (Tanzania)

^c MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM HOMINIS; DIARRHEA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TANZANIA;

CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM HOMINIS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS;

EID: 24944532065     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2005.73.520     Document Type: Article

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