Outbreak of Cyclosporiasis in Korean Travelers Returning from Nepal
| Autor: | Sang Eun Lee, Myoung-Ro Lee, Da-Won Ma, Ku Bora, Shin-Hyeong Cho |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Diarrhea
Male 0301 basic medicine Veterinary medicine Traveler's diarrhea 030106 microbiology Biology Brief Communication Polymerase Chain Reaction Cyclospora cayetanensis Disease Outbreaks Foodborne Diseases Feces protozoa 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Nepal Republic of Korea parasitic diseases medicine Humans Species identification 030212 general & internal medicine Cyclosporiasis Travel Korea Direct microscopy Outbreak Middle Aged traveler’s diarrhea medicine.disease biology.organism_classification Cyclospora PCR Infectious Diseases Female Parasitology medicine.symptom Nested polymerase chain reaction |
| Zdroj: | The Korean Journal of Parasitology |
| ISSN: | 1738-0006 0023-4001 |
| DOI: | 10.3347/kjp.2020.58.5.589 |
| Popis: | Cyclospora cayetanensis is an apicomplexan protozoan and is one of the most common pathogens causing chronic diarrhea worldwide. Eight stool samples with diarrheal symptom out of 18 Korean residents who traveled to Nepal were obtained, and examined for 25 enteropathogens including 16 bacterial species, 5 viral species, and 4 protozoans in stool samples as causative agents of water-borne and food-borne disease. Only C. cayetanensis was detected by nested PCR, and 3 PCR-positive samples were sequenced to confirm species identification. However, the oocysts of C. cayetanensis in fecal samples could not be detected by direct microscopy of the stained sample. As far as we know, this is the first report of a group infection with C. cayetanensis from a traveler visiting Nepal, and the second report of a traveler’s diarrhea by C. cayetanensis imported in Korea. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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