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Bronchopulmonary lophomoniasis: emerging disease or unsubstantiated legend?

The relationship between Lophomonas, a genus of multiflagellated protozoa, and respiratory pathology has recently received attention. Here, we summarize the origin, mode of transmission, pathogenic mechanism and relevant clinical data of bronchopulmonary lophomoniasis.

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Autores principales: Martínez-Girón, Rafael, van Woerden, Hugo Cornelis
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4077114/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24957324
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-3305-7-284
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spelling pubmed-40771142014-07-02 Bronchopulmonary lophomoniasis: emerging disease or unsubstantiated legend? Martínez-Girón, Rafael van Woerden, Hugo Cornelis Parasit Vectors Letter to the Editor The relationship between Lophomonas, a genus of multiflagellated protozoa, and respiratory pathology has recently received attention. Here, we summarize the origin, mode of transmission, pathogenic mechanism and relevant clinical data of bronchopulmonary lophomoniasis. BioMed Central 2014-06-23 /pmc/articles/PMC4077114/ /pubmed/24957324 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-3305-7-284 Text en Copyright © 2014 Martinez-Girón and van Woerden; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Martínez-Girón, Rafael
van Woerden, Hugo Cornelis
Bronchopulmonary lophomoniasis: emerging disease or unsubstantiated legend?
title Bronchopulmonary lophomoniasis: emerging disease or unsubstantiated legend?
title_full Bronchopulmonary lophomoniasis: emerging disease or unsubstantiated legend?
title_fullStr Bronchopulmonary lophomoniasis: emerging disease or unsubstantiated legend?
title_full_unstemmed Bronchopulmonary lophomoniasis: emerging disease or unsubstantiated legend?
title_short Bronchopulmonary lophomoniasis: emerging disease or unsubstantiated legend?
title_sort bronchopulmonary lophomoniasis: emerging disease or unsubstantiated legend?
topic Letter to the Editor
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4077114/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24957324
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-3305-7-284
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