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Volume 21, Number 1—January 2015
Dispatch

Acute Blastocystis-Associated Appendicular Peritonitis in a Child, Casablanca, Morocco

Emilie Fréalle1Comments to Author , Dima El Safadi1, Amandine Cian, Estelle Aubry, Gabriela Certad, Marwan Osman, Agnès Wacrenier, Emmanuel Dutoit, Colette Creusy, François Dubos, and Eric Viscogliosi
Author affiliations: University of Lille, University Hospital Center, Lille, France (E. Fréalle, E. Aubry, A. Wacrenier, E. Dutoit, F. Dubos); Pasteur Institute of Lille, Center for Infection and Immunity of Lille, Lille (E. Fréalle D. El Safadi, A. Cian, G. Certad, M. Osman, E. Viscogliosi); Doctoral School of Sciences and Technology, Lebanese University, Tripoli, Lebanon (D. El Safadi, M. Osman); Hospital Group of the Catholic Institute of Lille, France (C. Creusy)

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Microbiological examination of samples of feces, appendix, recto-uterine pouch, and peritoneal fluid from child who had peritonitis, Casablanca, Morocco*

Variable
Date of sampling, 2013
Aug 30

Sept 1

Nov 13
Procedure/result
Feces
Appendix
Recto-uterine pouch
Peritoneal fluid
Feces
Microscopic examination
Numerous Blastocystis vacuolar forms; no Cryptosporidium or other parasites

Presence of rare Blastocystis
ND
ND

Absence of parasites
Real-time PCR
Blastocystis spp. Positive Positive Positive Positive Negative
Cryptosporidium spp.
Negative

Negative
Negative
Negative

ND
Sequencing
Blastocystis spp. genotype
ST2, ST3

ST3
ST3
ST3

ND
Bacterial culture
Negative for Salmonella, Shigella, Campylobacter, Yersinia enterocolitica

ND
Multimicrobial 
flora
Multimicrobial flora

ND
Viral antigen detection
Negative for aenovirus and rotavirus

ND
ND
ND

ND
*ND, not done; ST, subtype.
†Figure, panels B,C.

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1These authors contributed equally to this article.

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