| blastocystis sp. and other intestinal parasites in hemodialysis patients. | chronic renal insufficiency disease (cri) leads to uremia in hemodialysis patients and induces a state of immunodepression that results in higher frequencies of infections and diarrhea. hemodialysis patients resident in the city of campo mourão, paraná, brazil were analyzed from april 2006 through september 2007 for blastocystis sp. and other intestinal parasites and for associated diarrhea. fecal samples from 86 hemodialysis patients and 146 healthy (reference) persons were examined by standard ... | 2008 | 19030738 |