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INTESTINAL INFECTION BY CRYPTOSPORIDIUM IN THREE CHILDREN WITH ABDOMINAL PAIN AND CHRONIC DIARRHOEA

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Children infection by Cryptosporidium sp. have been communicated since 1976 usually associated to acute diarrohoeal disease. This protozoa has been isolated recently in SIDA patients with serious illness. Three new cases, the first of spanish pediatric literature, are described in this paper. Children were males; two of them twins. Age ranged 24 to 27 m. All lived in Valencia, and went to infant's school with high stand of living and domestic animal relationship. The most frequent symptom was well located colic abdominal pain with day predominance and 2 months of evolution in the twins. The third case began with abdominal pain and discomfort. Three months before had been treated with Metronidazol because G. lamblia infestation. All of them had irregular depositions, good nutritional status and normal abdominal examination findings. None had fever, proctitis, periartritis, anemia,eosinophilia, ESR, rotavirus antibody title elevation or humoral and celular immunity alterations. Another pathogenic agents were not isclated by bacteriologic or parasitologic study. Cryptosporidium was isolated by Ziehl modified technique (Garcia et al, 1983) in three samples of stools. Recovery was spontaneous with only dietetic measures. Other authors report good results with spiramycin.