New insights into Blastocystis spp.: A potential link with irritable bowel syndrome

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Poirier, Philippe ^a,b,c   Wawrzyniak, Ivan ^a,b   Vivarès, Christian P ^a,b   Delbac, Frédéric ^a,b   El Alaoui, Hicham ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CLERMONT AUVERGNE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ BLAISE PASCAL   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF CLERMONT FERRAND   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRANULOCYTE MACROPHAGE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; INTERLEUKIN 8; PROTEINASE ACTIVATED RECEPTOR 2;

ABDOMINAL DISCOMFORT; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYSTIS; COLON BIOPSY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; IRRITABLE COLON; MICROBIAL GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; ANIMAL; BLASTOCYSTIS HOMINIS; BLASTOCYSTOSIS; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE MODEL; GENETICS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; PATHOGENICITY; PREVALENCE; RAT;

BLASTOCYSTIS;

ANIMALS; BLASTOCYSTIS HOMINIS; BLASTOCYSTIS INFECTIONS; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME; PREVALENCE; RATS;

EID: 84861214012     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1002545     Document Type: Article

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