RESUMEN
AIM: The study of clinical symptoms of gastrointestinal lesions in subjects invaded with cryptosporidia. MATERIALS AND METHODS: From 1994 to 1997 383 patients with monocryptosporidiasis were observed. 75.7% of them were children. Cryptosporidia oocysts were identified in fecalia using Fulleborn technique. The specimens were stained according to Cill-Nilsson. RESULTS: Clinically, the invasion was characterized by acute onset, severe course in children, involvement of the whole gastrointestinal and respiratory tracts. CONCLUSION: Monocryptosporidiasis runs in Turkmenistan a more severe course compared to countries with moderately hot climate.
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Criptosporidiosis/complicaciones , Enterocolitis/parasitología , Adulto , Animales , Niño , Criptosporidiosis/diagnóstico , Criptosporidiosis/epidemiología , Cryptosporidium/aislamiento & purificación , Diagnóstico Diferencial , Enterocolitis/diagnóstico , Enterocolitis/epidemiología , Estudios de Seguimiento , Humanos , Incidencia , Recurrencia , Estudios Retrospectivos , Tasa de Supervivencia , Turkmenistán/epidemiologíaRESUMEN
The oocystic infestation of Cryptosporidia in patients with acute intestinal infections was first registered in Turkmenistan. It was 15.8%, highly affecting children of the first two years of life. The monoinfection is characterized by common severe and critical forms (in 60%) with marked symptoms of diarrhea. Cases of hemocolitis were detected. A large source of Cryptosporidium infection was found among 8 animal species under study (chickens, ducks, pigeons, canary birds, sheep, cattle, pigs, dogs).
