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Query: UMLS:C0740441 (acute diarrhea)
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Parasites and diarrhoea are more frequent in poor populations. Parasite prevalence rates in post-diarrhoeal patients of the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research (ICDDRB) and in non-diarrhoeal populations of two Dhaka poor socioeconomic communities have been compared to explore if there is any effect of acute diarrhoea on parasite prevalence rates. Stool of a 4% systemic randomly selected sample of diarrhoeal patients and the whole population of two local poor communities have been examined. The results showed that the prevalence of parasites in a post-diarrhoeal population is significantly lower than in a non-diarrhoeal population. These reductions (E. hist. 10.2% vs. 2.03%, G. lamb. 9.7% vs. 3.5%, hookworm 37.4% vs. 4.7% and Ascaris lumbricoides 81% vs. 20.6%) may be attributed mainly to the flushing effect of diarrhoea.
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PMID:Impact of acute diarrhoea on parasite loads. 238 95

Over a period of 9 months (June 1, 1992-February 25, 1993), a total of 287 patients with diarrhea presenting at the adult medicine filter clinic (130) and the dermatovenereology clinic (157) of the University Teaching Hospital in Lusaka, Zambia, were enrolled in a study of the frequency of parasitic infections in adults with diarrhea. All of the 157 patients recruited from the dermatovenereology clinic were HIV-seropositive. Of these, 97 (62%) had chronic diarrhea; 7 (4%) had acute diarrhea, and 53 (34%) had no diarrhea. Out of 130 patients recruited from the adult medicine filter clinic, 85 (65.4%) were HIV-seropositive and 45 (34.6%) were seronegative. Of the HIV-seropositive patients, 58 (68%) had acute diarrhea and 27 (32%) had chronic diarrhea. 10 (23%) of the HIV-seronegative patients had chronic diarrhea. The common parasites detected in stools of all HIV-seropositive adults were Ascaris lumbricoides, hookworm, Entamoeba coli, and Cryptosporidium spp. The coccidian parasites Isospora belli and Cryptosporidium spp were seen only in the HIV-seropositive group. In the dermatovenereology clinic there was a statistically significant difference between parasite detection rate of Isospora belli and Cryptosporidium spp in HIV-seropositive patients with chronic diarrhea compared to asymptomatic HIV-seropositive individuals (p = 0.01 and p 0.05, respectively). Cryptosporidium was detected in 4 (4.7%) HIV-seropositive adults in the adult medicine filter clinic and in 4 (4%) seropositive patients with diarrhea in the dermatovenereology clinic. Isospora belli was detected in 5 (6%) HIV-seropositive adult medicine filter clinic patients, while 9 (9%) HIV-seropositive patients from the dermatovenereology clinic had this parasite. A significant difference in detection rates of Entamoeba coli was seen between the HIV-seropositive group in the dermatovenereology clinic: 17 (10.8%), compared to patients in the adult medicine filter clinic: 1 (1.5%).
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PMID:Gut parasites in HIV-seropositive Zambian adults with diarrhoea. 783 60