| cryptosporidiosis among medical patients with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome in tikur anbessa teaching hospital, ethiopia. | fresh stool specimens, collected at random from 63 medical in-patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (aids), were studied prospectively for cryptosporidium oocyst. the diagnosis of aids was made according to the clinical case definition of the bangui criteria. these patients presented with profuse watery diarrhoea, significant weight loss and other associated symptoms and signs of clinical manifestations of symptomatic human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) infection. using the modified ki ... | 1994 | 7835259 |
| the demographic, social and clinical presentations of one hundred ethiopian patients with human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) infection. | the demographic, social and clinical presentation of 100 hiv positive patients hospitalized in tikur anbessa hospital, addis ababa, ethiopia, between 1986 and 1989 are described. the mean age is 38.2 years with a range of 16 to 58. over 75% of the patients are under 40 years. they came from ten different regions of ethiopia. only 82% of the patients fulfil the provisional world health organization clinical case definition of aids (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome). tuberculosis is the commones ... | 1990 | 2364937 |