[Clinical and laboratory characteristics of cryptosporidiosis in Turkmenistan].

AIM: The study of clinical symptoms of gastrointestinal lesions in subjects invaded with cryptosporidia.

MATERIALS AND

METHODS

From 1994 to 1997 383 patients with monocryptosporidiasis were observed. 75.7% of them were children. Cryptosporidia oocysts were identified in fecalia using Fulleborn technique. The specimens were stained according to Cill-Nilsson.

RESULTS

Clinically, the invasion was characterized by acute onset, severe course in children, involvement of the whole gastrointestinal and respiratory tracts.

CONCLUSION

Monocryptosporidiasis runs in Turkmenistan a more severe course compared to countries with moderately hot climate.