| detection of cryptosporidium amongst diarrhoeic and asymptomatic children in jeddah, saudi arabia. | between the march and may of 2000, stool specimens were collected from children aged <5 in six pre-school crèches and clinics in the jeddah area of saudi arabia. sixty-three (25%) of the children had diarrhoeal disease but the other 190 were asymptomatic. when the stool samples were stained and examined for the oocysts of cryptosporidium spp. and other enteric protozoa, 20 (32%) of the symptomatic children but only nine (4.7%) of the asymptomatic were found to be excreting cryptosporidium oocyst ... | 2003 | 12930614 |