Isospora belliand the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome

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Abstract
The article by Pape and colleagues (April 20 issue)* on Isospora belli infection in patients with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) provides valuable information about the treatment and prophylaxis of an infection of increasing importance among patients with AIDS. In Los Angeles County through May 1989, 57 patients with AIDS and isosporiasis had been identified (1 percent of all patients with AIDS), and the proportion of patients with AIDS who also had isosporiasis increased by 25 percent as compared with 1987–1988. The increasing incidence of reported cases of AIDS and isospora infection may be due both to improved recognition and diagnosis and to the rising number of Hispanic patients with AIDS.

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