HUMAN CYCLOSPORIASIS DIAGNOSIS: REPORT OF A CASE IN SÃO PAULO, SP, BRAZIL

• Published in: Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo
• Main Authors: Andréia Otaviani Di Pietro Fernandes, Maria Cristina Casaqui Carollo, Lúcia Maria Almeida Braz, Vicente Amato Neto, Maria Silvia Hadler Villela
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade de São Paulo (USP) 1998
• Subjects: Coccidia; Cyclospora; Human host; Kinyoun staining; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Infectious and parasitic diseases; RC109-216; Arctic; Ela
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1590/S0036-46651998000600010; https://doaj.org/article/1b94dc4fedcf4d8fae257d57057bef81

Diagnosis of the human cyclosporiasis is reported in São Paulo, SP, Brasil. Cyclospora cayetanensis has been identified in the feces of a patient by a modified Kinyoun staining method, with later sporulation in a solution of 2.5% potassium dichromate. The probability that this parasite is the eventu...