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A preliminary study of the prevalence of intestinal parasites in immunocompromised patients with and without gastrointestinal manifestationsJorge Humberto Botero
Laboratorio de Parasitologia, Facultad de Medicina, Corporación de Patologías Tropicales, Universidad de Antioquia, Colombia
Rev Inst Med Trop Sao Paulo 45:197-200. 2003..4% (36/111) and 9% (10/111) respectively, the most frequently encountered among the latter being Cryptosporidium sp., Microsporidia spp. and Strongyloides stercoralis...
Giardia intestinalis and nutritional status in children participating in the complementary nutrition program, Antioquia, Colombia, May to October 2006Jorge H Botero-Garcés
Departamento de Microbiologia y Parasitologia, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Antioquia, Colombia
Rev Inst Med Trop Sao Paulo 51:155-62. 2009..intestinalis, while 8.1% and 1.9% were mildly and significantly underweight, respectively, and 14.1% presented stunting. Giardiasis was statistically identified as a strong predictor of stunting in this study population...
[Frequency of intestinal microsporidian infections in HIV-positive patients, as diagnosis by quick hot Gram chromotrope staining and PCR]Jorge H Botero
Departamento de Microbiologia y Parasitologia, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellin, Colombia
Biomedica 24:375-84. 2004..The microsporidiosis frequency was relatively low with 3 of the 4 cases associated with protracted diarrhea, counts of LTCD4+ below 100 cel/microl and viral loads up to 100,000 copies...
[An outbreak of Cyclospora cayetanensis in Medellín, Colombia]Jorge Botero-Garcés
Departamento de Microbiologia y Parasitologia, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Antioquia
Rev Salud Publica (Bogota) 8:258-68. 2006..Describing an outbreak of gastrointestinal disease in a group of 56 patients from Medellín, Colombia...
