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| | Isosporiasis [ HIV / AIDS Treatment Information ] |
 | | Trimethoprim-Sulfamethoxazole (TMP-SMX; Bactrim™, Septra®) is the most effective combination of drugs used to prevent PCP and to treat isosporiasis. | | | Are there any experimental treatments in development for isosporiasis? | | | If you would like to find out if you are eligible for any clinical trials involving new treatments for isosporiasis, there is an interactive web site run by amfAR, the American Foundation for AIDS Research. |
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http://www.projinf.org/fs/isosporiasis.html
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| | OI: Isosporiasis -- ÆGIS |
| | Pyrimethamine is sometimes effective for those who can't take sulfonamides. | | | Isosporiasis, chronic intestinal (greater than 1 month's duration) | | | Isosporiasis is an intestinal disease caused by a parasite -- Isosporiasis belli -- which is found in the tropics and subtropics. |
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http://www.aegis.com/topics/oi/oi-isosporiasis.html
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| | NEJM -- Clinical manifestations and therapy of Isospora belli infection in patients with the acquired immunodeficiency ... |
| | Recurrent symptomatic isosporiasis developed in 47 percent of the patients, but it also responded promptly to therapy with trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole. | | | We conclude that isosporiasis is common in Haitian patients with AIDS, and that it responds to therapy with trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole but is associated with a high rate of recurrence. | | | The infection was associated with chronic watery diarrhea and weight loss that was clinically indistinguishable from disease caused by the related coccidia cryptosporidium. |
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http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/abstract/315/2/87
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| | A research study found that 15% of AIDS patients in Haiti had Isosporiasis. | | | Between 1985-1992, 7.4% of foreign-born AIDS-infected El Salvadorians had Isosporiasis, and 5.4% of Mexican-born AIDS patients had the disease. | | | In the US, 0.2-0.3% of AIDS patients have Isosporiasis. |
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http://www.stanford.edu/class/humbio103/ParaSites2002/isosporiasis/epidemiology.html
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| | Indian Pediatrics - Editorial |
| | The clinical presentation of HIV positive and HIV negative children in present study did not differ. | | | • Isosporiasis is an important condition in children with immunodeficiency disorder. | | | The clinical data of patients with isosporiasis with or without HIV infection is summarised in Table I. |
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http://www.indianpediatrics.net/oct2002/oct-941-944.htm
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| | Cryptosporidiosis, Cyclosporiasis, and Isosporiasis in the Setting of HIV Infection |
| | A prior history of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP) was negatively associated with isosporiasis presumably due to the prevention of primary isosporiasis or expression of latent isosporiasis by TMP-SMX prophylaxis for PCP.(162) | | | Soave R. Cryptosporidiosis and isosporiasis in patients with AIDS. | | | Symptoms in the Haitian study of AIDS patients were indistinguishable from those reported in AIDS patients with isosporiasis or cryptosporidiosis. |
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http://hivinsite.ucsf.edu/InSite.jsp?page=kb-05&doc=kb-05-04-01
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| | Tropical Medicine Central Resource |
| | All had duodenal biopsy with histological examination, proving strongyloidiasis in 3 patients and isosporiasis in the other two. | | | Autopsy findings in one case seem to support this theory. | | | In a 1998 report, Hizawa et al used double-contrast barium studies to compare the radiological features of strongyloidiasis with isosporiasis (infection with the parasite Isospora belli) in 5 Japanese patients, 4 of whom had impaired cellular immunity (3 had HTLV-1 infection). |
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http://tmcr.usuhs.mil/tmcr/chapter13/radiological4.htm
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| | HIV Medicine 2005 Opportunistic Infections |
| | The editors and the authors of HIV Medicine might agree - under certain conditions - to remove the copyright on their book for all languages except English and German. | | | These infections affect HIV patients more frequently than immunocompetent individuals, have more serious courses of disease than in HIV-negative patients and recur more frequently. | | | These diseases include aspergillosis, bacillary angiomatosis, histoplasmosis, isosporiasis, coccidioidomycosis (Coccidioides immitis), visceral leishmaniasis, microsporidiosis, Penicillium marneffei mycosis and rhodococcosis. |
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http://www.hivmedicine.com/textbook/oi.htm
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| | PKP Open Archives Harvester: View Record |
| | Background and objectives: Cryptosporidosis and isosporiasis are becoming common in subjects with AIDS. | | | Cryptosporidiosis and Isosporiasis among HIV/AIDS patients in Jimma, Southwest Ethiopia | | | Thus a cross-sectional study was conducted to determine the magnitude of Cryptosporidium parvum and Isospora belli infections among HIV/AIDS patients in Jimma, Southwest Ethiopia. |
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http://www.kevinjamieson.com/harvester/viewrecord.php?id=2993
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| | eMedicine - Isosporiasis : Article by Venkat R Minnaganti, MD |
| | Isosporiasis is an initial AIDS-defining illness in approximately 0.2% of patients with AIDS. | | | Mortality/Morbidity: In immunocompetent patients, isosporiasis usually is a transient illness, but it can result in a protracted diarrheal illness. | | | Medical Care: In immunocompetent patients, isosporiasis is a mild, protracted illness. |
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http://www.emedicine.com/med/topic1194.htm
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| | Thieme: Fachzeitschriften: Endoscopy |
| | Second Dept. of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan | | | Isosporiasis has been increasingly recognized as an important gastrointestinal parasitic disease after the onset of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome [1-3]. | | | Parasitic diseases in immunocompromised hosts: cryptosporidiosis, isosporiasis, and strongyloidiasis. |
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http://www.thieme.de/fz/endoscopy/03_99/ifoc_01.html
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| | Specialty Laboratories ::: we help doctors help patients |
| | Isosporiasis, cryptosporidiosis, cyclosporidiosis and microsporidiosis are similar in epidemiology, disease pathogenesis, clinical manifestations, diagnosis and treatment. | | | Patients with isosporiasis respond to treatment with trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole. | | | Isosporiasis in Venezuelan adults infected with human immunodeficiency virus: clinical characterization. |
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http://www.specialtylabs.com/books/print_view.asp?id=175
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| | UpToDate Isospora infections |
| | The use of trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole for prophylaxis against Pneumocystis carinii in HIV-infected patients diminishes the likelihood of developing isosporiasis [2]. | | | In contrast, isosporiasis is often a chronic diarrheal infection, prone to relapse even after therapy in immunocompromised hosts [3,8], especially those with AIDS [3] and human T-lymphotropic type I infection [9]. | | | In the United States, Isospora infections are more commonly observed in Hispanics, foreign-born patients, and HIV-positive homosexual men rather than those who acquired HIV by some other route such as intravenous drug use [2]. |
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http://patients.uptodate.com/topic.asp?file=parasite/7504&title=Diarrhea
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| | Epidemiology of isosporiasis among persons with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome in Los Angeles County. |
| | A decrease in the prevalence of isosporiasis in patients negative for PCP was observed beginning in 1989 (P = 0.02). | | | Isosporiasis was reported in 127 (1.0%) of 16,351 persons with AIDS during the study period. | | | Persons with a history of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP) were less likely than PCP-negative patients to have isosporiasis (0.2% and 1.4%, respectively, P < 0.01). |
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http://www.aegis.com/aidsline/1996/may/M9650883.html
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| | NEJM -- Treatment and prophylaxis of Isospora belli infection in patients with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome |
| | We conclude that isosporiasis in patients with AIDS can be treated effectively with a 10-day course of trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole and that recurrent disease can subsequently be prevented by ongoing prophylaxis with either trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole or sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine. | | | Half of the patients (5 of 10) who received placebo had recurrent, symptomatic isosporiasis a mean of 1.6 months after the initial treatment. | | | The study medications were generally well tolerated but had to be discontinued in the cases of two patients because of severe pruritus. |
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http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/short/320/16/1044
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| | THE MERCK MANUAL, Sec. 13, Ch. 161, Parasitic Infections |
| | Infection with Microsporidia, causing a spectrum of manifestations that range from asymptomatic infection in immunocompetent persons to chronic diarrhea, corneal disease, and myositis in patients with AIDS. | | | In AIDS patients, this should be followed by lifelong suppressive treatment with 1 double-strength tablet of TMP-SMX 3 times/wk. | | | Alternative treatments for isosporiasis include pyrimethamine (25 mg/day po) plus sulfadiazine (500 mg/day po) with leucovorin rescue; sulfonamide-sensitive patients may benefit from high-dose pyrimethamine alone (50 to 75 mg/day with leucovorin rescue) or roxithromycin. |
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http://www.merck.com/pubs/mmanual/section13/chapter161/161d.htm
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| | Aidsmap Co-trimoxazole |
| | Co-trimoxazole may also be used to treat Shigella, urinary tract infections, isosporiasis and bronchitis. | | | Interestingly, co-trimoxazole prophylaxis taken by HIV-positive members of families in Uganda has even been shown to have an indirect benefit on health and survival in HIV-negative family members, by reducing illness within families and decreasing the number of children who become orphaned (Mermin 2005). | | | In resource-poor countries, co-trimoxazole has been shown to reduce the incidence of a range of opportunistic infections including pneumonia and isosporiasis and it also has an anti-malarial effect. |
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http://www.aidsmap.com/en/docs/5F044E0B-E353-412F-9708-79920F55184F.asp
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| | Isosporiasis - definition of Isosporiasis in Encyclopedia |
| | Isosporiasis is a human intestinal disease caused by a parasite called Isosporiasis belli. | | | Causal Agent: The coccidian parasite, Isospora belli, infects the epithelial cells of the small intestine, and is the least common of the three intestinal coccidia that infect humans. | | | Embed a dictionary search in your own web page |
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http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/Isosporiasis
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| | Protozoal Infections: Isosporiasis |
| | successfully treated two AIDS patients unable to tolerate sulfonamides, for isosporiasis with pyrimethamine (50-75 mg PO qd) and leucovorin (10 mg PO qd); recurrence was prevented by maintenance treatment with pyrimethamine (25 mg PO qd) and leucovorin (5 mg PO qd). | | | successfully treated 32 AIDS patients with isosporiasis with TMP/SMX (one double-strength tablet PO four times daily). | | | For maintenance, the patients were randomized to receive TMP/SMX (one double strength tablet three times weekly), sulfadoxine/pyrimethamine (500 mg/25 mg weekly), or placebo. |
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http://www.hivpositive.com/f-Oi/OppInfections/4-Protozoal/4-Pro-Isosp.html
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| | AccessMedicine - HARRISON'S ONLINE: Protozoal Infections |
| | Sections: Giardiasis, Life Cycle and Epidemiology, Pathophysiology, Clinical Manifestations, Diagnosis, Treatment, Prevention, Cryptosporidiosis, Life Cycle and Epidemiology, Pathophysiology, Clinical Manifestations, Diagnosis, Treatment, Isosporiasis, Treatment, Cyclosporiasis, Treatment, Microsporidiosis, Other Intestinal Protozoa, Balantidiasis, Blastocystis hominis Infection, Dientamoeba fragilis Infection, Sarcosporidiosis. | | | Topics Discussed: balantidiasis; balantidium; blastocystis hominis; blastocystis infections; cryptosporidiosis; cryptosporidium; cryptosporidium parvum; cyclospora; cyclosporiasis; dientamoeba; giardia lamblia; giardiasis; isospora; isosporiasis; microspora; microsporidiosis; sarcocystosis. |
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http://www.accessmedicine.com/content.aspx?aID=78153
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| | isosporiasis - OneLook Dictionary Search |
| | isosporiasis : The On-line Medical Dictionary [home, info] | | | ISOSPORIASIS : CPCRA AIDS Specific and Clinical Trials Terminology [home, info] | | | isosporiasis : Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary [home, info] |
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http://www.onelook.com/?w=isosporiasis&ls=all
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