Cryptosporidium parvum bovine genotype oocysts in the respiratory samples of an AIDS patient: Efficacy of treatment with a combination of azithromycin and paromomycin

Parasitology Research

Volumn 98, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 593-595

  Meamar, Ahmad Reza ^a   Rezaian, Mostafa ^a   Rezaie, Sasan ^a   Mohraz, Minoo ^b   Kia, Eshrat B ^a   Houpt, Eric R ^c   Solaymani Mohammadi, Shahram ^a,c  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZITHROMYCIN; PAROMOMYCIN; RNA 18S;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; AIDS PATIENT; ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM BOVINE GENOTYPE; DIARRHEA; DRUG EFFICACY; FECES ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INTESTINE INFECTION; IRAN; LUNG INFECTION; MALABSORPTION; MALE; NESTED POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; OOCYST; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHIC LOCUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA GENE; SPUTUM ANALYSIS; STAINING; WEIGHT REDUCTION; ZOONOSIS;

ADULT; AIDS-RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; ANIMALS; ANTIPROTOZOAL AGENTS; AZITHROMYCIN; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FECES; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES, PARASITIC; MALE; OOCYSTS; PAROMOMYCIN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; SPUTUM;

BOVINAE; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM SP.;

EID: 33645453415     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-005-0097-4     Document Type: Article

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