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| Title: | Cryptospordiosis in Jos, Nigeria |
| Authors: | Onah, J.A
Idiong, D.U
Bello, C.S.S
Ujah, I.A.O
Mawak, J.D |
| Issue Date: | 1998 |
| Publisher: | The Nigerian Journal of Parasitology |
| Series/Report no.: | Vol.19;Pp 45-50 |
| Abstract: | Out of 304 stool samples submitted for routine microbiological examinations from
the out-patient Department (OPD) of the Jos University Teaching Hospital (JUTH),
further investigations for Cryptosporidium sp oocysts infection were carried out
using the modified Ziehi-Nelson staining method. Oocysts of Cryptosporidium sp
were detected in9 (2.9%) of the samples of these nine(9) positive samples
5(2.65%) of them were from children 1-10 years old. All were watery stools.
Other intestinal pathogens encountered include Entamoeba histolytica, 30 (9.8%);
Hookworm 11 (3.62%) and Schistosoma mansoni 5 (1.6.4%). The prevalence
rate recorded for others were 1, (0.33%) for Hymenofpsis nana Giardia lamblia
and Ascaris lumbricoides respectively. This pilot study has documented the
occurence of Cryptosporidium in humans with diarrhoeal cases in Jos. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/470 |
| Appears in Collections: | Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Medical Microbiology
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