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To the Editor: Chronic diarrhea is being recognized with increasing frequency in patients with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, and it contributes to morbidity in this population. Up to 30 percent of patients with this problem have no identifiable pathogen even after intensive evaluation.¹ In an attempt to identify another potential cause in pathogen-negative diarrhea, Kotler and Orenstein reported visualizing bacteria adherent to a colonic-biopsy specimen from a 33-year-old man with AIDS, three months of unexplained diarrhea, and weight loss that responded to ciprofloxacin.² These bacteria were not characterized further. Enteroaggregative Escherichia coli have been recognized as a cause . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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