%0 Journal Article
%T Coccidios intestinales en ni£¿os menores de 5 a£¿os con diarrea: Emergencia pedi¨¢trica, Hospital Universitario £¿Ruiz y P¨¢ez£¿
%A Devera
%A Rodolfo
%A Blanco
%A Ytalia
%A Amaya
%A Iv¨¢n
%A Requena
%A Ixora
%A Rodr¨ªguez
%A Yajaira
%J Revista de la Sociedad Venezolana de Microbiolog¨ªa
%D 2010
%I Scientific Electronic Library Online
%X a study was carried out between august and october 2006 with the purpose of determining the prevalence of intestinal coccidia in children under 5 years of age with diarrhea who attended the pediatric emergency service of the £¿ruiz paez£¿ university hospital. a fecal sample obtained from each patient was submitted to the following tests: direct examination, formaldehyde-ether and kinyoun staining. a total of 130 fecal samples obtained from the same number of patients were examined; 60 of the patients were girls (46.2%) and 70 were boys (53.8%), with a mean age of 2 ¡À 1.4 years. a general prevalence of 38.5% (50/130) intestinal parasites was found. the intestinal coccidia prevalence was 12.3%, and cryptosporidium spp. was the most frequent parasite with 10 cases (7.7%), followed by cyclospora cayetanensis with six cases (4.6%). there were no differences regarding gender (p>0.05) and age (¦Ö2 = 7.41; g.l. = 5) of children with coccidia. coccidia alone were identified in 11 cases, while in other 5 cases the coccidia were associated with other enteroparasites. it was concluded that the prevalence of intestinal coccidia in children with acute diarrhea attending the pediatric emergency service of the £¿ruiz paez£¿ university hospital was relatively high (10.9%) and that cryptosporidium was the most frequent coccidia identified
%K diarrhea
%K coccidia
%K cryptosporidium.
%U http://www.scielo.org.ve/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1315-25562010000200011&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en