Life-Threatening Cryptosporidium Diarrhea in a Child on Induction Chemotherapy for Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia

Cryptosporidium infection is usually self-limiting but can be life-threatening in immunocompromised patients. It has emerged as an important cause of diarrhea in such patients worldwide. In this report, we describe a case of Cryptosporidium diarrhea in a child on induction therapy for acute lymphobl...

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Autores principales: Bakliwal, Anamika, Nath, Uttam Kumar, Mohanty, Aroop, Gupta, Pratima
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8551933/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34722091
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.18340
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author Bakliwal, Anamika
Nath, Uttam Kumar
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Gupta, Pratima
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description Cryptosporidium infection is usually self-limiting but can be life-threatening in immunocompromised patients. It has emerged as an important cause of diarrhea in such patients worldwide. In this report, we describe a case of Cryptosporidium diarrhea in a child on induction therapy for acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL); timely diagnosis using multiplex polymerase chain reaction (PCR) led to definitive treatment and a favorable outcome in our patient.
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spelling pubmed-85519332021-10-28 Life-Threatening Cryptosporidium Diarrhea in a Child on Induction Chemotherapy for Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Bakliwal, Anamika Nath, Uttam Kumar Mohanty, Aroop Gupta, Pratima Cureus Internal Medicine Cryptosporidium infection is usually self-limiting but can be life-threatening in immunocompromised patients. It has emerged as an important cause of diarrhea in such patients worldwide. In this report, we describe a case of Cryptosporidium diarrhea in a child on induction therapy for acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL); timely diagnosis using multiplex polymerase chain reaction (PCR) led to definitive treatment and a favorable outcome in our patient. Cureus 2021-09-28 /pmc/articles/PMC8551933/ /pubmed/34722091 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.18340 Text en Copyright © 2021, Bakliwal et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Bakliwal, Anamika
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Gupta, Pratima
Life-Threatening Cryptosporidium Diarrhea in a Child on Induction Chemotherapy for Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
title Life-Threatening Cryptosporidium Diarrhea in a Child on Induction Chemotherapy for Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
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title_fullStr Life-Threatening Cryptosporidium Diarrhea in a Child on Induction Chemotherapy for Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
title_full_unstemmed Life-Threatening Cryptosporidium Diarrhea in a Child on Induction Chemotherapy for Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
title_short Life-Threatening Cryptosporidium Diarrhea in a Child on Induction Chemotherapy for Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
title_sort life-threatening cryptosporidium diarrhea in a child on induction chemotherapy for acute lymphoblastic leukemia
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8551933/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34722091
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.18340
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