| intestinal parasites in zambian patients with aids. | previous studies have found a high prevalence of isospora belli and cryptosporidium parvum infections in african acquired immune deficiency syndrome (aids) patients with chronic diarrhoea. we aimed to determine the prevalence of gastrointestinal parasite in aids patients in hospital, not only those with diarrhoea, and to compare them with the general community. clinically diagnosed aids patients in a zambian teaching hospital were interviewed and examined, and stool specimens were studied for pa ... | 1992 | 1475829 |
| gut parasites in hiv-seropositive zambian adults with diarrhoea. | we undertook a nine month study to define the frequency of parasitic infections in adults with diarrhoea presenting at the medical filter clinic and the dermatovenereology clinic of the university teaching hospital in lusaka, zambia. a total of 287 patients with diarrhoea were enrolled in the study; 130 from the adult medicine filter clinic recruitment consulting room and 157 patients from the dermatovenereology clinic. of 130 patients from the adult filter clinic, 85 (65%) were hiv-seropositive ... | 1994 | 7835260 |
| enteropathy in zambians with hiv related diarrhoea: regression modelling of potential determinants of mucosal damage. | aids is characterised by small intestinal mucosal damage, but its aetiopathogenesis is poorly understood. enteric infections in africa differ from those in northern countries, where protozoan infections have been associated with severe enteropathy in aids patients. | 1997 | 9462215 |