cryptosporidium is a protozoan parasite that infects epithelial cells of the intestine in a wide variety of vertebrates. during the last decade, cryptosporidiosis has emerged as a cause of diarrhea in man. most of the' patients have aids, and have had contact with infected animals. in this study ' 510 samples were collected from sheep and examined for detection of this parasite. the r...

The EPA method 1623 is designed specifically for the detection of Cryptosporidium and Giardia, but the method has some issues with low and variable recoveries. Ultrafiltration has been used effectively for microorganism recovery from water samples but is not approved by the EPA. To determine the efficacy of using ultrafiltration, 10-L tap water and surface water samples were seeded with Cryptos...

BACKGROUND Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infection leads to acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) and major causes of morbidity and mortality of such patients are opportunistic infections caused by viral, bacterial, fungal and parasitic pathogens. OBJECTIVES To determine the magnitude of opportunistic and non-opportunistic intestinal parasitic infections among AIDS patients and HIV p...

Cryptosporidium intestinal parasites have been detected in farmed pigs worldwide. Infections are usually asymptomatic with a low number of oocysts shed in pig feces. This makes the recognition of infection difficult or unsuccessful when microscopic methods are used. The aim of this study was molecular identification of Cryptosporidium species in pig herds raised in Poland with regard to the occ...

Poverty, parasitosis and HIV/AIDS are closely interlinked and co-circulate in many populations. HIV/AIDS, parasitic infections like malaria and other opportunistic infections, and in a few are by far the commonest causes of ill-health and death in the poorest countries of the world, that happen to be in the tropics and temperate countries in Africa, Asia, and South America. Parasitic infections...

Sir, In resource limited countries such as India, parasitic enteric infections remain common in the general population and in the HIV infected, with geographic differences in the reported prevalence of individual pathogens reflecting differences in pathogen prevalence, standards of hygiene and diagnostic methods used.1,2 In this study, we report the prevalence of enteric parasites in HIV positi...