Soave, "Coccidian infections in AIDS: Toxoplasmosis, Cryptosporidiosis, and
Isosporiasis," Medical Clinics of North America, vol.
Higher prevalence of
isosporiasis was seen in patients with CD4 [less than or equal to]200 cells/pL as compared to those with higher CD4 + T cell counts.
Parasites causing diarrhoea: cryptosporidiosis, microsporidiosis and
isosporiasisbelli as the most common coproparasite in HIV infected individuals with diarrhoea and revealed an increasing trend in the proportion of
isosporiasis (3-6).
Cryptosporidiosis,
isosporiasis, and strongyloidiasis.
This level of resistance may compromise the usefulness of SXT in preventing bacterial infection in HIV-infected persons, although any effect in preventing Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia or
isosporiasis would be valuable.
Clinically, cyclosporiasis cannot be distinguished from cryptosporidiosis or
isosporiasis. In otherwise healthy individuals, the infection is usually self-limiting.
The median TCD4+ cell count is usually above or close to 200 cells/[mm.sup.3] for tuberculosis and
isosporiasis infections and less than 100 cells/[mm.sup.3] for candidiasis, PCP, CMV infection, and MAC infection [5].
The commonest extra-intestinal manifestation of cryptosporidiosis, microsporidiosis and
isosporiasis is acalculous cholecystitis.
Includes only: candidiasis of lung (112.4) coccidiosis (007.2) cryptosporidiosis (007.2)
isosporiasis (007.2 cryptococcosis (117.5) With HIV infection pneumocystosis (136.3) progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (046.3) toxoplasmosis (130)
Protozoal pathogens include Cryptosporidiosis,
Isosporiasis, Microsporidiosis, Pnemo-cystis Carinii Pneumonia (PCP) and Toxoplasmosis.
