[Cryptosporidiosis among intestinal parasitosis in Senegalese pediatric hospital patients]

Dakar Med. 1993;38(2):129-32.
[Article in French]

Abstract

From November 1991 to March 1992 authors have carried out a study on the place of cryptosporidiosis among the intestinal diseases in children from a Dakar Pediatric Hospital. Different technics have been used to identify the parasites in the stool: direct examination, followed by Ritchie and Zielh Nielsen modified by Henricksen and Poblenz. The results show that 32% of the children were carriers parasites. Helminths represent 53.2% of the parasites with predominance of Ascaris lumbricoides. Giardia intestinalis is the more representative parasite among the Protozoa which constitute 46.8% of the parasites. 13 cases of parasites associations have been founded. The cryptosporidies have been founded in 3 stools, and constitute 4.6% of the whole parasites. The cryptosporidiosis take a little place among the intestinal diseases in Dakar's children.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Ascaris lumbricoides / isolation & purification
  • Child, Preschool
  • Cryptosporidiosis / epidemiology*
  • Cryptosporidiosis / parasitology
  • Eukaryota / isolation & purification
  • Feces / parasitology
  • Female
  • Giardia lamblia / isolation & purification
  • Helminths / isolation & purification
  • Humans
  • Infant
  • Intestinal Diseases / parasitology*
  • Male