Socio-Behavioral Risk Factors Associated with Cryptosporidiosis in HIV/AIDS Patients Visiting the HIV Referral Clinic at Cape Coast Teaching Hospital, Ghana.

Conclusion: We report the risk factor for exposure of Cryptosporidium infection among HIV/AIDS patients for the first time in Ghana. The contamination of drinking water by protozoan parasites should be a public health concern. These results provide the stepping block to understand the transmission dynamics of Cryptosporidium and other opportunistic pathogens in HIV/AIDS infected patients in Ghana. PMID: 30369995 [PubMed]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30369995?dopt=Abstract

Source: Open AIDS Journal - October 30, 2018 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Open AIDS J Source Type: research