Volume 21, Number 1—January 2015
Dispatch
Acute Blastocystis-Associated Appendicular Peritonitis in a Child, Casablanca, Morocco
Table
Variable |
Date of sampling, 2013 |
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Aug 30 |
Sept 1 |
Nov 13 |
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Procedure/result |
Feces |
Appendix |
Recto-uterine pouch |
Peritoneal fluid |
Feces |
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Microscopic examination |
Numerous Blastocystis vacuolar forms; no Cryptosporidium or other parasites |
Presence of rare Blastocystis† |
ND |
ND |
Absence of parasites |
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Real-time PCR | |||||||
Blastocystis spp. | Positive | Positive | Positive | Positive | Negative | ||
Cryptosporidium spp. |
Negative |
Negative |
Negative |
Negative |
ND |
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Sequencing | |||||||
Blastocystis spp. genotype |
ST2, ST3 |
ST3 |
ST3 |
ST3 |
ND |
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Bacterial culture |
Negative for Salmonella, Shigella, Campylobacter, Yersinia enterocolitica |
ND |
Multimicrobial
flora |
Multimicrobial flora |
ND |
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Viral antigen detection |
Negative for aenovirus and rotavirus |
ND |
ND |
ND |
ND |
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*ND, not done; ST, subtype. †Figure, panels B,C. |
1These authors contributed equally to this article.
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