General features of patients infected with dientamoeba fragilis: Assessment of a cohort of one hundred patients from manisa province; [Dientamoeba fragilis ile enfekte hastaların genel özellikleri: Manisa ilinden yüz hastalık kohortun inceleme sonuçları]
| dc.contributor.author | Kurt Ö. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Ok Ü.Z. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-07-22T08:19:34Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-07-22T08:19:34Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2012 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Dientamoeba fragilis is a flagellated protozoon dwelling in the colonic lumen. It was shown that it may cause clinical manifestations which required effective anti-microbial therapy. General features of 100 D. fragilis-infected patients were assessed in a study conducted in the Parasitology Laboratory of Celal Bayar University Hospital. Patients were mostly females, between 18 and 50 years, and almost two-thirds of them were admitted with gastrointestinal complaints such as bloating, abdominal pain, diarrhea and fatigue. Thirty-four of 100 patients were coinfected with Blastocystis sp., while 27 of 83 (32.5%) patients that submitted three cellophane tape samples were coinfected with Enterobius vermicularis. Another significant outcome of the study was that 7 and 6 of 35 patients reported dermatologic complaints as itching and lesions, consecutively. The patients and/or their families were mostly educated, middle-class individuals living in apartments in city centre, using tap water for drinking and do regular hand-washing. The study results suggest that D. fragilis should be regarded as a causative agent in pediatric and adult patients suffering from abdominal pain, diarrhea and intense bloating, and the fresh stool samples should be examined directly or kept in a fixative solution until examination with a permanent-stained smear such as trichrome. © 2012, Veteriner Fakultesi Dergisi. All rights reserved. | |
| dc.identifier.DOI-ID | 10.9775/kvfd.2012.6080 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 13006045 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://akademikarsiv.cbu.edu.tr:4000/handle/123456789/17747 | |
| dc.language.iso | Turkish | |
| dc.publisher | Veteriner Fakultesi Dergisi | |
| dc.title | General features of patients infected with dientamoeba fragilis: Assessment of a cohort of one hundred patients from manisa province; [Dientamoeba fragilis ile enfekte hastaların genel özellikleri: Manisa ilinden yüz hastalık kohortun inceleme sonuçları] | |
| dc.type | Article |