Prevalenc of diarrhea caused by Cryptosporidium parvum in non-HIV patients in Jeollanam-do, Korea
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The present study investigated the prevalence rate of Cryptosporidium parvumas a cause of diarrhea.We examined 942 stools of unidentified reasons occurring in patients in whom no immunosuppression had beendetected. We examined the stools for Cryptosporidium parvumvia modified acid-fast staining. The clinical records ofall of the positive patients were then analyzed. Nine (1%) of the stools among the 942 diarrheal patients were positivefor C. parvum. The positive rate in the males was 1.1% (6/522) and the positive rate of the females was 0.7% (3/420).Age distribution revealed that the highest positive rates were in patients in their sixties, with a positive rate of 2.5%(4/158). In the clinical tests, levels of c-reactive protein, erythrocyte sedimentation rates, and neutrophil proportionswere normally increased in the peripheral blood, whereas the lymphocyte proportion exhibited a tendency towardsdecrease. The pathological findings were compatible with an inflammatory reaction in the host.
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