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Mucosal eosinophilic infiltration may be a characteristic of human intestinal spirochetosis
BACKGROUND: Human intestinal spirochetosis (HIS) is an infectious disease of large intestines caused by Brachyspira species, and most HIS cases are asymptomatic or exhibit mild intestinal symptoms. The host reaction to HIS remains unclear, and we examined HIS-related mucosal inflammatory features hi...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8325824/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34332545 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-021-06418-8 |
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author | Ogata, Sho Shimizu, Ken Tominaga, Susumu Matsukuma, Susumu |
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description | BACKGROUND: Human intestinal spirochetosis (HIS) is an infectious disease of large intestines caused by Brachyspira species, and most HIS cases are asymptomatic or exhibit mild intestinal symptoms. The host reaction to HIS remains unclear, and we examined HIS-related mucosal inflammatory features histologically. METHODS: From the archival HIS cases in a single medical center, 24 endoscopically taken specimens from 14 HIS cases (male:female = 10:4; 28–73 yrs) were selected as not containing polypoid or neoplastic lesions. Stromal neutrophils, eosinophils, and mast cells, and intraepithelial neutrophils and eosinophils, (sNeu, sEo, sMast, iNeu, and iEo, respectively) were counted, and the presence or absence of lymphoid follicles/aggregates (LFs) was also examined. Association of the above inflammation parameters and spirochetal infection parameters (such as degrees of characteristic fringe distribution, of spirochetal cryptal invasion, and of spirochetal intraepithelial invasion) were also analysed. RESULTS: iNeu was observed in 29.2%, iEo in 58.3%, and LFs in 50.0% of the specimens. Maximal counts of sNeu, sEo, sMast, iNeu, and iEo averaged 8.4, 21.5, 6.0, 0.5 and 1.5, respectively. Strong correlation between the maximum counts of iNeu and iEo (p < 0.001, r = 0.81), and correlations between those of iEo and sNeu (p = 0.0012, r = 0.62) and between those of iEo and sEo (p = 0.026, r = 0.45) were observed. iNeu was influenced by fringe formation (p < 0.05) and spirochetal crypt involvement (p < 0.05). CONCLUSIONS: HIS was accompanied by inflammatory reactions, and among these, mucosal eosinophilic infiltration may be a central indicator and host reaction of HIS. |
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spelling | pubmed-83258242021-08-02 Mucosal eosinophilic infiltration may be a characteristic of human intestinal spirochetosis Ogata, Sho Shimizu, Ken Tominaga, Susumu Matsukuma, Susumu BMC Infect Dis Research Article BACKGROUND: Human intestinal spirochetosis (HIS) is an infectious disease of large intestines caused by Brachyspira species, and most HIS cases are asymptomatic or exhibit mild intestinal symptoms. The host reaction to HIS remains unclear, and we examined HIS-related mucosal inflammatory features histologically. METHODS: From the archival HIS cases in a single medical center, 24 endoscopically taken specimens from 14 HIS cases (male:female = 10:4; 28–73 yrs) were selected as not containing polypoid or neoplastic lesions. Stromal neutrophils, eosinophils, and mast cells, and intraepithelial neutrophils and eosinophils, (sNeu, sEo, sMast, iNeu, and iEo, respectively) were counted, and the presence or absence of lymphoid follicles/aggregates (LFs) was also examined. Association of the above inflammation parameters and spirochetal infection parameters (such as degrees of characteristic fringe distribution, of spirochetal cryptal invasion, and of spirochetal intraepithelial invasion) were also analysed. RESULTS: iNeu was observed in 29.2%, iEo in 58.3%, and LFs in 50.0% of the specimens. Maximal counts of sNeu, sEo, sMast, iNeu, and iEo averaged 8.4, 21.5, 6.0, 0.5 and 1.5, respectively. Strong correlation between the maximum counts of iNeu and iEo (p < 0.001, r = 0.81), and correlations between those of iEo and sNeu (p = 0.0012, r = 0.62) and between those of iEo and sEo (p = 0.026, r = 0.45) were observed. iNeu was influenced by fringe formation (p < 0.05) and spirochetal crypt involvement (p < 0.05). CONCLUSIONS: HIS was accompanied by inflammatory reactions, and among these, mucosal eosinophilic infiltration may be a central indicator and host reaction of HIS. BioMed Central 2021-07-31 /pmc/articles/PMC8325824/ /pubmed/34332545 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-021-06418-8 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Ogata, Sho Shimizu, Ken Tominaga, Susumu Matsukuma, Susumu Mucosal eosinophilic infiltration may be a characteristic of human intestinal spirochetosis |
title | Mucosal eosinophilic infiltration may be a characteristic of human intestinal spirochetosis |
title_full | Mucosal eosinophilic infiltration may be a characteristic of human intestinal spirochetosis |
title_fullStr | Mucosal eosinophilic infiltration may be a characteristic of human intestinal spirochetosis |
title_full_unstemmed | Mucosal eosinophilic infiltration may be a characteristic of human intestinal spirochetosis |
title_short | Mucosal eosinophilic infiltration may be a characteristic of human intestinal spirochetosis |
title_sort | mucosal eosinophilic infiltration may be a characteristic of human intestinal spirochetosis |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8325824/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34332545 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-021-06418-8 |
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