RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Shedding of oocysts of Cryptosporidium in immunocompetent patients.
JF Journal of Clinical Pathology
JO J Clin Pathol
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and Association of Clinical Pathologists
SP 1104
OP 1106
DO 10.1136/jcp.41.10.1104
VO 41
IS 10
A1 Shepherd, R C
A1 Reed, C L
A1 Sinha, G P
YR 1988
UL http://jcp.bmj.com/content/41/10/1104.abstract
AB Forty nine patients (19 adults and 30 children) with oocysts of Cryptosporidium in their faeces had repeated stool specimens taken until oocysts could no longer be identified. They were found in the stools up to 35 days after the onset of symptoms in one patient, but most had stopped shedding them by 20 days. In 25 of the 49 patients in whom symptoms could be compared with the shedding of oocysts, 19 (76%) had symptoms corresponding to the shedding period while symptoms persisted in four (16%) after shedding had stopped.