Cryptosporidium infection in patients with major histocompatibility complex class II deficiency syndrome in Tunisia: Description of five cases;La cryptosporidiose chez les enfants atteints de déficits immunitaires primitifs par défaut d'expression de protéines du complexe majeur d'histocompatibilité classe II en Tunisie: à propos de 5 observations

Archives de Pediatrie

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 939-944

  Ben Abda, I ^a   Essid, R ^a   Mellouli, F ^b   Aoun, K ^a   Bejaoui, M ^b   Bouratbine, A ^a  

^a PASTEUR INSTITUTE OF TUNIS   (Tunisia)

^b CENTRE NATIONAL DE GREFFE DE MOELLE OSSEUSE   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BARE LYMPHOCYTE SYNDROME; CHILD; CHRONIC DIARRHEA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM HOMINIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM MELEAGRIDIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FAILURE TO THRIVE; FECES ANALYSIS; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; MIXED INFECTION; OOCYST; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE LOAD; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RURAL AREA; SCLEROSING CHOLANGITIS; TUNISIA;

CHILD; CONSANGUINITY; CROSS INFECTION; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; FECES; FEMALE; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGENS CLASS II; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; IMMUNOLOGIC DEFICIENCY SYNDROMES; MALE; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; TUNISIA;

EID: 80051800004     PISSN: 0929693X     EISSN: 1769664X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.arcped.2011.06.015     Document Type: Article

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