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Title: Enteric parasites and HIV infection: occurrence in AIDS patients in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Authors: Viola, Joao Paulo de Biaso
Fernandes, Octavio
Moura, H.
Passos, R. H.
Keywords: Brasil
Brazil
Enteropatias Parasitárias
Intestinal Diseases Parasitic
Infecções por HIV
HIV Infections
Pacientes
Patients
Síndrome de Imunodeficiência Adquirida
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
Issue Date: 1989
Abstract: The occurrence of intestinal parasites, its relation with the transmission mechanism of HIV, and the clinical state of the AIDS patients, were analyzed in 99 Group IV patients (CDC, 1986), treated at "Hospital Universitário Pedro Ernesto" (HUPE), between 1986 and 1988. The group consisted of 79 (79.8%) patients whose HIV transmission mechanism took place through sexual contact and of 16 (20.2%) who were infected through blood. Feces samples from each patient were examined by four distincts methods (Faust et al., Kato-Katz, Baermann-Moraes and Baxby et al.). The most occurring parasites were: Cryptosporidium sp., Entamoeba coli and Endolimax nana (18.2%), Strongyloides stercoralis and Giardia lamblia (15.2%), E. histolytica and/or E. hartmanni (13.1%), Ascaris lumbricoides (11.1%) and Isospora belli (10.1%). Furthermore, 74.7% of the patients carried at least one species. Intestinal parasites were found in 78.5% of the patients who acquired the HIV through sexual intercourse and in 56.3% of those infected by blood contamination. The difference, was not statistically significant (p greater than 0.05). In the group under study, the increase of the occurrence of parasitic infections does not seem to depend on the acquisition of HIV through sexual contact. It appears that in developing countries, the dependency is more related to the classic mechanisms of parasites transmission and its endemicity.
URI: https://ninho.inca.gov.br/jspui/handle/123456789/12072
ISSN: 1678-8060
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