Isosporiasis (also known as cystoisosporiasis) is an exclusively human parasitosis occurring mainly in the tropics and subtropics, due to infection with <i>Isospora belli</i> (through ingestion of contaminated food), that is frequently asymptomatic or that can cause fever and diarrhea, but that is usually a self-limiting condition in the immunocompetent. HIV-positive individuals are particularly at risk of suffering from symptomatic isosporiasis and can manifest with a more severe clinical course of chronic diarrhea and severe weight loss.
Intestinal and extraintestinal Isospora belli infection in an AIDS patient. A second case report.
Michiels JF, Hofman P, Bernard E, Saint Paul MC, Boissy C, Mondain V, LeFichoux Y, Loubiere R. Pathol Res Pract. 1994;190(11):1089-93; discussion 1094.
She died in March 1993 following a cachexia secondary to a chronic intestinal isosporiasis.
