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High occurrence of cyclosporiasis in Istanbul, Turkey, during a dry and warm summer

We evaluated the incidence of Cyclospora cayetanensis in immunocompetent, diarrheic patients during the summers of 2006-2009 in Istanbul. Stools from 1876 patients were examined using microscopic techniques. Cyclospora oocysts were observed in wet preparations by light and epifluorescence microscopy...

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Autores principales: Ozdamar, Melda, Hakko, Elif, Turkoglu, Salih
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2868808/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20416057
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-3305-3-39
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description We evaluated the incidence of Cyclospora cayetanensis in immunocompetent, diarrheic patients during the summers of 2006-2009 in Istanbul. Stools from 1876 patients were examined using microscopic techniques. Cyclospora oocysts were observed in wet preparations by light and epifluorescence microscopy and in fecal smears that were stained by Kinyoun's modified acid-fast stain. Characteristic Cyclospora oocysts were observed in 2 patients in 2006, 17 in 2007, and one in 2009. Samples positive for Cyclospora were further analyzed by a single step polymerase chain reaction (PCR) with Cyclospora-specific primers from the ITS-1 region of the genome. The majority of the Cyclospora positive cases (15) were clustered during about 15 days in June 2007, indicating an unusual incidence of cyclosporiasis in this time period. The climatic characteristics of 2007 could have played a role in this high occurrence rate.
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spelling pubmed-28688082010-05-13 High occurrence of cyclosporiasis in Istanbul, Turkey, during a dry and warm summer Ozdamar, Melda Hakko, Elif Turkoglu, Salih Parasit Vectors Short Report We evaluated the incidence of Cyclospora cayetanensis in immunocompetent, diarrheic patients during the summers of 2006-2009 in Istanbul. Stools from 1876 patients were examined using microscopic techniques. Cyclospora oocysts were observed in wet preparations by light and epifluorescence microscopy and in fecal smears that were stained by Kinyoun's modified acid-fast stain. Characteristic Cyclospora oocysts were observed in 2 patients in 2006, 17 in 2007, and one in 2009. Samples positive for Cyclospora were further analyzed by a single step polymerase chain reaction (PCR) with Cyclospora-specific primers from the ITS-1 region of the genome. The majority of the Cyclospora positive cases (15) were clustered during about 15 days in June 2007, indicating an unusual incidence of cyclosporiasis in this time period. The climatic characteristics of 2007 could have played a role in this high occurrence rate. BioMed Central 2010-04-23 /pmc/articles/PMC2868808/ /pubmed/20416057 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-3305-3-39 Text en Copyright ©2010 Ozdamar et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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High occurrence of cyclosporiasis in Istanbul, Turkey, during a dry and warm summer
title High occurrence of cyclosporiasis in Istanbul, Turkey, during a dry and warm summer
title_full High occurrence of cyclosporiasis in Istanbul, Turkey, during a dry and warm summer
title_fullStr High occurrence of cyclosporiasis in Istanbul, Turkey, during a dry and warm summer
title_full_unstemmed High occurrence of cyclosporiasis in Istanbul, Turkey, during a dry and warm summer
title_short High occurrence of cyclosporiasis in Istanbul, Turkey, during a dry and warm summer
title_sort high occurrence of cyclosporiasis in istanbul, turkey, during a dry and warm summer
topic Short Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2868808/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20416057
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-3305-3-39
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