Cryptosporidiosis in Children from the Sultanate of Oman

Authors

J. J. Windsor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine, Sultan Qaboos University, P.O.Box35, Al-Khod 123, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman.
S. El-Shafie, Department of Medicine Laboratory, Hamad Medical Corporation, P. 0. Box 3050, Dohar
Qatar. N/A, Qatar.
S. Welch, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine, Sultan Qaboos University, P.O.Box35, Al-Khod 123, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman.
F. Al-Toqui, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine, Sultan Qaboos University, P.O.Box35, Al-Khod 123, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman.

Abstract

Over a one year period, 807 faecal samples from children (0-12 years) were submitted for routine microbiological examination and screening for Cryptosporidium oocysts. A Phenol-auramine stain was used and putative oocysts were measured afler confirmatory staining with the modified Ziehl Neelsen method. Cryptosporidium were identified in 16 (1.9%) of the samples, and was the third most common enteropathogen after Giardio lamlia (6.0%) and Entomoeba histolytica/dispar (2.3 %). With the exception of two patients with underlying immunodeficiency disorders, all were immunocompetent. No cases of Cryprosporidium were diagnosed during the hottest months of May and June.

Publication Date

1-31-1999

First Page

59

Last Page

62

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Recommended Citation

Windsor, J. J.; El-Shafie, S.; N/A, Qatar.; Welch, S.; and Al-Toqui, F. (1999) "Cryptosporidiosis in Children from the Sultanate of Oman," Sultan Qaboos University Medical Journal: Vol. 1: 59-62.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.18295/2075-0528.1151