|
KMID : 0425120200580050571
|
|
Parasites, Hosts and Diseases
2020 Volume.58 No. 5 p.571 ~ p.576
|
|
|
An Unusual Case of Extra-Enteric Blastocystosis in the Uterine Cervix
|
|
Escutia-Guzman Yolanda
Martinez-Flores Williams Arony
Martinez-Ocana Joel
Martinez-Pimentel Ramon
Benitez-Ramirez Marisol
Martinez-Hernandez Fernando
Arroyo-Escalante Sara
Romero-Valdovinos Mirza
Orozco-Mosqueda Guadalupe Erendira
Maravilla Pablo
|
|
|
Abstract
|
|
|
|
Extra-enteric infections by Blastocystis spp. have rarely been documented. Here, we report a case of extra-enteric blastocystosis in a patient with minimal cervicitis symptoms. A 47-year-old Hispanic female patient was attended in a primary health centre in Michoacan state, Mexico, for her routine gynaecological medical examination. As only symptom, she referred to a slight vaginal itching. The presence of several vacuolar-stages of Blastocystis spp. were identified by Papanicolaou staining; molecular identification was attempted by culture-PCR sequencing of a region of 18S gene from cervical and faecal samples obtained 2 months after cytological examination, even when patient declared that she tried self-medicating with vaginal ovules. Blastocystis ST1 was identified only in the faecal sample. The presence of Blastocystis spp. in the cervix of a patient with scarce symptomatology, demonstrates the extraordinary flexibility of this microorganism to adapt to new environments and niches.
|
|
|
KEYWORD
|
|
|
Blastocystis spp., Blastocystis subtypes, Papanicolaou stain, cervix, extra-enteric blastocystosis
|
|
|
FullTexts / Linksout information
|
|
|
|
|
Listed journal information
|
|
    
|