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Prevalence of opportunistic intestinal parasitic infections among HIV-infected patients with low CD4 cells counts in France in the combination antiretroviral therapy era.
Int J Infect Dis
September 2012
Department of Infectious Diseases, Saint-Louis Hospital and University of Paris Diderot Paris 7, 1 avenue Claude Vellefaux, 75010 Paris, France.
Background: The use of combination antiretroviral therapy (cART) has dramatically reduced the prevalence of opportunistic infections, however data on the prevalence of intestinal parasitic infections in HIV-infected patients with low CD4 cell counts in the cART era are scarce.
Methods: We performed a prospective cohort study among HIV-infected patients with CD4 cell counts <100/mm(3) seen at a university hospital in Paris. Medical records were reviewed and stool samples were obtained for macroscopic examination and detection of parasites including cryptosporidia and microsporidia, whether or not the patient had diarrhea.