Clinical features & risk factors associated with cryptosporidiosis in HIV infected adults in India

Indian Journal of Medical Research

Volumn 126, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 553-557

  Rao Ajjampur, S S ^a   Asirvatham, J R ^a   Muthusamy, Dheepa ^a   Gladstone, B P ^a   Abraham, O C ^a   Mathai, Dilip ^a   Ward, Honorine ^b   Wanke, Christine ^b   Kang, Gagandeep ^a  

^a CHRISTIAN MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cryptosporidiosis; Cryptosporidium; HIV; India; Zoonotic

Indexed keywords

ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT; WATER;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DIARRHEA; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM HOMINIS; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FEVER; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INDIA; INFECTION RISK; INFECTIOUS DIARRHEA; INTERVIEW; INTESTINE PARASITE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; NAUSEA; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; RESIDENTIAL AREA; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; URBAN RURAL DIFFERENCE; WATER SUPPLY; ZOONOSIS; AIDS RELATED COMPLEX; ANIMAL; DIARRHEA; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MIDDLE AGED; PARASITOLOGY; RURAL POPULATION; URBAN POPULATION;

ADULT; AIDS-RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; ANIMALS; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; URBAN POPULATION; WATER;

EID: 42949152396     PISSN: 09715916     EISSN: 09715916     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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