出版社：Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, yazd, Iran
摘要：Background: Intestinal protozoa transmitted by food are the most common opportunistic parasites among the HIV+/AIDS patients. As, there is no report about prevalence of food-borne intestinal parasites in such patients in Yazd, so this study was performed to determine the prevalence of intestinal protozoa in the HIV+/AIDS patients in comparison with HIV- individuals. Methods: A case-control study was conducted from July 2015 to March 2016. Totally, 73 patients (group I) were involved from the Prevention of Behavioral Disorders Center, Yazd, central of Iran. A control group (group II) comprised 147 HIV- individuals. After collecting the stool samples; wet mount, concentration method, and modified Ziehl-Neelsen staining was performed. Statistical analysis was done using SPSS 16.0 by Chi-Square and Fisher tests. Results: Detected food-borne protozoa in HIV+/AIDS patients were included Giardia lamblia, Entamoeba histolytica, Blastocystis hominis, Chilomastix mesnili, Endolimax nana, and Entamoeba coli. Overall, out of 73 cases in group I, 34.2% were infected with intestinal food-borne protozoa compared with 4.1% (out of 147 cases) infection rate in group II, which showed significant difference (p
