Severe Blastocystis subtype 3 infection in a patient with colorectal cancer

Colorectal cancer (CRC), more of lifestyle-related disorder, is one of the deadliest types of cancer across the globe. Nevertheless, infectious agents could be responsible for 20% of cancer. Recent findings have indicated the association of Blastocystis in CRC and recommend routine screening for Bla...

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Autores principales: Padukone, Shashiraja, Mandal, Jharna, Parija, Subhash Chandra
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017
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Dispatches
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5652051/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29114493
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/tp.TP_87_15
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author Padukone, Shashiraja
Mandal, Jharna
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description Colorectal cancer (CRC), more of lifestyle-related disorder, is one of the deadliest types of cancer across the globe. Nevertheless, infectious agents could be responsible for 20% of cancer. Recent findings have indicated the association of Blastocystis in CRC and recommend routine screening for Blastocystis. Herein, we describe a case of CRC with severe Blastocystis infection.
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spelling pubmed-56520512017-11-07 Severe Blastocystis subtype 3 infection in a patient with colorectal cancer Padukone, Shashiraja Mandal, Jharna Parija, Subhash Chandra Trop Parasitol Dispatches Colorectal cancer (CRC), more of lifestyle-related disorder, is one of the deadliest types of cancer across the globe. Nevertheless, infectious agents could be responsible for 20% of cancer. Recent findings have indicated the association of Blastocystis in CRC and recommend routine screening for Blastocystis. Herein, we describe a case of CRC with severe Blastocystis infection. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017 /pmc/articles/PMC5652051/ /pubmed/29114493 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/tp.TP_87_15 Text en Copyright: © 2017 Tropical Parasitology 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_fullStr Severe Blastocystis subtype 3 infection in a patient with colorectal cancer
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5652051/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29114493
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/tp.TP_87_15
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