Lophomonas blattarum infection in immunocompetent patient

Lophomonas blattarum (L. blattarum) is a protozoan parasite living in intestinal tracts of termites and cockroaches. Chen and Meng from China repoted first case of pulmonary L. blattarum infection in 1993. 137 cases have only been reported in literature between 1993 to 2013. Majority of these infect...

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Autores principales: Tyagi, Rahul, Anand, Kavita Bala, Teple, Kishore, Negi, Rajkumar Singh
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5112827/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27890999
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-2113.192867
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author Tyagi, Rahul
Anand, Kavita Bala
Teple, Kishore
Negi, Rajkumar Singh
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description Lophomonas blattarum (L. blattarum) is a protozoan parasite living in intestinal tracts of termites and cockroaches. Chen and Meng from China repoted first case of pulmonary L. blattarum infection in 1993. 137 cases have only been reported in literature between 1993 to 2013. Majority of these infections occur in immunocompromised patients and have been reported from China. We report a case of this rare entity in an immunocompetent young Indian male.
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spelling pubmed-51128272016-11-25 Lophomonas blattarum infection in immunocompetent patient Tyagi, Rahul Anand, Kavita Bala Teple, Kishore Negi, Rajkumar Singh Lung India Case Report Lophomonas blattarum (L. blattarum) is a protozoan parasite living in intestinal tracts of termites and cockroaches. Chen and Meng from China repoted first case of pulmonary L. blattarum infection in 1993. 137 cases have only been reported in literature between 1993 to 2013. Majority of these infections occur in immunocompromised patients and have been reported from China. We report a case of this rare entity in an immunocompetent young Indian male. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016 /pmc/articles/PMC5112827/ /pubmed/27890999 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-2113.192867 Text en Copyright: © 2016 Indian Chest Society http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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title_full Lophomonas blattarum infection in immunocompetent patient
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title_full_unstemmed Lophomonas blattarum infection in immunocompetent patient
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5112827/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27890999
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-2113.192867
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