REPEATED FINDINGS OF UNIDENTIFIED SMALL ISOSPORA-LIKE COCCIDIA IN FECAL SPECIMENS FROM TRAVELERS RETURNING TO THE NETHERLANDS

Findings are described of small (8-10 mu m) coccidian oocysts in the s tools of 9 patients presenting with diarrhoea, all of whom with a hist ory of travelling in South Asia and/or South America in the years 1986 and a 1987. There was no indication of immunodeficiency, These oocyst s, which were immature in freshly excreted stools, could be induced to sporulate into a two-sporocysts stage and are now recognized as Cyclo spora spec.