Do not forget the stool examination! - Cutaneous and gastrointestinal manifestations of Blastocystis sp. infection

Parasitology Research

Volumn 113, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1585-1590

  Bálint, Anita ^a   Dóczi, Ilona ^a   Bereczki, László ^a   Gyulai, Rolland ^b   Szűcs, Mónika ^a   Farkas, Klaudia ^a   Urbán, Edit ^a   Nagy, Ferenc ^a   Szepes, Zoltán ^a   Wittmann, Tibor ^a   Molnár, Tamás ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PÉCS   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DOXYCYCLINE; METRONIDAZOLE; RIFAXIMIN;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; ANUS DISEASE; ANUS PRURITUS; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYSTOSIS; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; CAMPYLOBACTER LARI; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDA GLABRATA; CANDIDIASIS; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; ENTAMOEBA COLI; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; EOSINOPHIL COUNT; EOSINOPHILIA; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FEVER; GALACTOMYCES GEOTRICHUM; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HEPATOMEGALY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LACTOSE INTOLERANCE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LYME DISEASE; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METEORISM; MIDDLE AGED; MIXED INFECTION; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIA; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; OCCULT BLOOD; PAIN; PERIANAL PAIN; PHARYNGITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATITIS; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKIN DEFECT; SKIN MANIFESTATION; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; VERY ELDERLY; VOMITING; WEIGHT REDUCTION; YOUNG ADULT;

BLASTOCYSTIS SP.; PROTOZOA;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLASTOCYSTIS; BLASTOCYSTIS INFECTIONS; DIARRHEA; EOSINOPHILIA; FECES; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; HUMANS; HUNGARY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKIN DISEASES, PARASITIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84897028211     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: 14321955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-014-3805-0     Document Type: Article

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