Clinical Features
Infection causes acute, non-bloody diarrhea with crampy abdominal pain, which can last for weeks and result in malabsorption and weight loss. In immunodepressed patients, and in infants and children, the diarrhea can be severe. Eosinophilia may be present (differently from other protozoan infections).isospori belli is also related to chriptosporidiam parvum in the sense that they both affect the small intestines and mostly the intestinal lining the villi
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