Prevalence of intestinal parasites including microsporidia in human immunodeficiency virus-infected adults in Cameroon: A cross-sectional study

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 162-164

  Sarfati, Claudine ^a   Bourgeois, Anke ^b   Menotti, Jean ^a   Liegeois, Florian ^b   Moyou Somo, Roger ^c   Delaporte, Eric ^b   Derouin, Francis ^a   Ngole, Eitel Mpoudi ^c   Molina, Jean Michel ^a  

^a SAINT LOUIS HOSPITAL   (France)

^b INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^c Hôpital Militaire de Yaoundé   (Cameroon)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CAMEROON; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CLINICAL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; DIARRHEA; ENTEROCYTOZOON; FECES ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INTESTINE PARASITE; ISOSPORA BELLI; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROSPORIDA; PREVALENCE; PROTOZOON; ANIMAL; COCCIDIOSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; FEMALE; INTESTINE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MICROSPORIDIOSIS; MIDDLE AGED; PARASITOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTOZOAL INFECTION;

ENTEROCYTOZOON BIENEUSI; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; ISOSPORA BELLI; MICROSPORIDIA; PROTOZOA;

ADULT; ANIMALS; CAMEROON; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INTESTINES; ISOSPORIASIS; MALE; MICROSPORIDIOSIS; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PROTOZOAN INFECTIONS;

EID: 33646013290     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2006.74.162     Document Type: Article

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