The Brief Case: Cystoisospora belli in the duodenal aspirate of an HIV-infected child
Nidhi Tejan, Nidhi Bhatnagar, Anju Dinkar, Shikha Singh · 2026
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Nidhi Tejan and colleagues present a diagnostic puzzle in this 2026 brief case report. A ten-year-old boy with HIV had suffered two years of heavy watery diarrhoea, a swelling belly, low fevers, and weight loss, leaving him pale and malnourished.
Five stool tests found no parasites, and tissue samples from his small intestine also looked clean. The answer sat in the fluid drawn from that same intestine: under the microscope it held many oval cysts of a parasite called Cystoisospora belli, confirmed by a special stain. The case shows why gut fluid deserves a look when stool tests keep missing the cause in children with weak immunity.
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| CREATOR | Nidhi Tejan, Nidhi Bhatnagar, Anju Dinkar, Shikha Singh |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 15524 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |