Differential metabolic response in AIDS-related chronic protozoal diarrhoea

Traveller’s Diarrhoea and Intestinal Protozoal Diarrhoeal Disease

Cryptosporidial diarrhoea in AIDS and its treatment.

Of 234 patients with AIDS diagnosed at St. Stephen's Hospital between January 1981 and June 1987, 26 (11%) were found to have cryptosporidiosis. Stool examination was positive in all patients, but an average of three specimens (range 1-6) were required before a positive diagnosis was made. Other methods of diagnosis included jejunal and rectal biopsy and aspiration of the duodenal contents. Twe...

Cytokine activation is predictive of mortality in Zambian patients with AIDS-related diarrhoea

BACKGROUND Mortality in Zambian AIDS patients is high, especially in patients with diarrhoea, and there is still unacceptably high mortality in Zambian patients just starting anti-retroviral therapy. We set out to determine if high concentrations of serum cytokines correlate with mortality. METHODS Serum samples from 30 healthy controls (HIV seropositive and seronegative) and 50 patients with...

Investigation of chronic diarrhoea

I congratulate the authors of the recently revised ‘‘BSG guidelines for the investigation of diarrhoea’’ for their excellent overview of this important clinical problem.(Gut 2003; 52(suppl V):v1–15). I would however take issue with the suggestion that measurement of stool volumes in outpatients is impractical. In my experience such measurement is readily achievable and cheap, merely requiring a...

HIV/AIDS Related Stigma in Iran: A Qualitative Study

HIV/AIDS is considered by many one as the most dangerous disease emerged in the human history. Unlike many diseases, this one is not just a medical situation; but a social problem. Its ways of transmission, generally related to risky behaviors and sexual activities, have pulled the attention of different sectors of society to this disease. It seems that a stigma is formed around HIV/AIDS and pe...