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Intestinal Spirochetosis mimicking inflammatory bowel disease in children

BACKGROUND: Intestinal spirochetosis is an unusual infection in children and its clinical significance in humans is uncertain. The presence of these microorganisms in humans is well-known since the late 1800’s and was first described in 1967 by Harland and Lee by electron microscopy. CASE PRESENTATI...

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Autores principales: Helbling, Rossana, Osterheld, Maria-Chiara, Vaudaux, Bernard, Jaton, Katia, Nydegger, Andreas
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3480841/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23066991
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2431-12-163
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author Helbling, Rossana
Osterheld, Maria-Chiara
Vaudaux, Bernard
Jaton, Katia
Nydegger, Andreas
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description BACKGROUND: Intestinal spirochetosis is an unusual infection in children and its clinical significance in humans is uncertain. The presence of these microorganisms in humans is well-known since the late 1800’s and was first described in 1967 by Harland and Lee by electron microscopy. CASE PRESENTATION: This article reports the findings of one pediatric case, review of the current literature, and an overview of therapeutic options. CONCLUSION: A high degree of suspicion is required in cases presenting with abdominal pain, chronic diarrhoea and/or hematochezia associated with a normal endoscopic examination, thus emphasizing the importance of multiple biopsies throughout the colon.
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spelling pubmed-34808412012-10-27 Intestinal Spirochetosis mimicking inflammatory bowel disease in children Helbling, Rossana Osterheld, Maria-Chiara Vaudaux, Bernard Jaton, Katia Nydegger, Andreas BMC Pediatr Case Report BACKGROUND: Intestinal spirochetosis is an unusual infection in children and its clinical significance in humans is uncertain. The presence of these microorganisms in humans is well-known since the late 1800’s and was first described in 1967 by Harland and Lee by electron microscopy. CASE PRESENTATION: This article reports the findings of one pediatric case, review of the current literature, and an overview of therapeutic options. CONCLUSION: A high degree of suspicion is required in cases presenting with abdominal pain, chronic diarrhoea and/or hematochezia associated with a normal endoscopic examination, thus emphasizing the importance of multiple biopsies throughout the colon. BioMed Central 2012-10-16 /pmc/articles/PMC3480841/ /pubmed/23066991 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2431-12-163 Text en Copyright ©2012 Helbling 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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