Clinical Study
Clinical and Microbiological Profile of HIV/AIDS Cases with Diarrhea in North India
Table 5
Frequency of enteropathogens in relation to CD4 counts in HIV seropositive cases (
).
| | Organism | CD4 < 200 cells/L
() | CD4 ≥ 200 cells/L
() | value (chi-square test) |
| | C. parvum | 47 (87.04%) | 40 (44.45%) | 0.0001 | | I. belli | 11 (20.37%) | 2 (2.23%) | 0.0001* | | Cyclospora spp. | 2 (3.70%) | 0 | — | | Microsporidium spp. | 1 (1.85%) | 0 | — | | E. histolytica | 4 (7.41%) | 3 (3.34%) | 0.403* | | G. lamblia | 2 (3.70%) | 1 (1.11%) | 0.556* | | A. lumbricoides | 3 (5.56%) | 2 (2.22%) | 0.631* | | C. difficile | 14 (25.92%) | 12 (13.33%) | 0.048 | | Diarrheagenic E. coli | 7 (12.96%) | 9 (10.00%) | 0.594 | | Shigella spp. | 3 (5.56%) | 1 (1.11%) | 0.148* | | C. albicans | 25 (46.30%) | 12 (13.33%) | 0.0001 |
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value calculation using Fisher’s exact test.
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