Clinical Study
Clinical and Microbiological Profile of HIV/AIDS Cases with Diarrhea in North India
Table 4
Frequency of enteric pathogens in relation to the HIV status of study subjects.
| | Organism | HIV seropositive cases
() | HIV seronegative subjects
() | value (chi-square test) |
| | C. parvum | 87 (60.42%) | 1 (2.00%) | 0.0001 | | I. belli | 13 (9.03%) | 1 (2.00%) | 0.082 | | Cyclospora spp. | 2 (1.39%) | 0 | — | | Microsporidium spp. | 1 (0.69%) | 0 | — | | E. histolytica | 7 (4.86%) | 1 (2.00%) | 0.343 | | G. lamblia | 3 (2.08%) | 2 (4.00%) | 0.726 | | A. lumbricoides | 5 (3.47%) | 1 (2.00%) | 0.514* | | C. difficile | 26 (18.06%) | 3 (6.00%) | 0.040 | | Diarrheagenic E. coli | 16 (11.11%) | 2 (4.00%) | 0.166* | | Shigella spp. | 4 (2.78%) | 0 | — | | C. albicans | 37 (25.69%) | 2 (4.00%) | 0.0001 |
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value calculation using Fisher’s exact test.
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