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Effective Treatment of Chronic Cough with Tinidazole as the Newest Antiprotozoa against Lophomonas blattarum [PDF]

Journal of Parasitology Research, 2022
Background. Chronic cough is a common problem in the setting of family physicians. Recently, Lophomonas blattarum was considered a cause of respiratory symptoms in children and adults. Objective.
Zahra Anhaee Nasseri, Majid Mirsadraee, Mahsa Manafi Varkiani, Younes Ghaderi, Fariba Berenji, Shadi Ghaffari   +5 more
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First report of emerged pulmonary lophomoniasis in two Afghanian medical tourists [PDF]

Clinical Case Reports, 2022
Lophomonas is a neglected and emerging protozoan that infects the lower and upper respiratory tracts of humans. Here, we present two cases of lophomoniasis from Afghanistan that include symptoms such as fever, cough, hemoptysis, and pleural effusion.
Ali Sharifpour, Hossein Zarrinfar, Mahdi Fakhar, Zakaria Zakariaei, Mostafa Soleymani, Elham Sadat Banimostafavi, Maryam Nakhaei   +6 more
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Diagnosis of pulmonary lophomoniasis in an elderly anthracosis patient with resistant respiratory symptoms: A literature review and a case report study [PDF]

Clinical Case Reports
Key Clinical Message Anthracosis causes chronic lung inflammation and immunodeficiency, which are associated with parasitic conditions like lophomonas.
Mohammad Hadi Tajik Jalayeri, Narges Lashkarbolouk, Mahdi Mazandarani   +2 more
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Molecular proof for Lophomonas infection in a patient with history of breast cancer [PDF]

Respirology Case Reports, 2022
We report a 52‐year‐old patient with a history of breast cancer (BC) referred to the clinic of Afzalipour Hospital, in Kerman, eastern Iran, with a 1‐week complaint of restless dyspnea.
Ahmad Shafahi, Ali Sharifpour, Erfan Ghadirzadeh, Amirmasoud Taheri, Mahdi Fakhar, Mostafa Soleymani   +5 more
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Global Status of Emerging Lophomonas Infection: A Systematic Review of Reported Cases (1993—2020) [PDF]

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Infectious Diseases, 2022
Purpose. Lophomonas spp., is an emerging protozoan parasite that belongs to the Parabasalids (Parabasalia, lophomonadida) which infects the respiratory tracts of humans.
Maryam Nakhaei, Mahdi Fakhar, Ali Sharifpour, Hajar Ziaei Hezarjaribi, Elham Sadat Banimostafavi, Eisa Nazar   +5 more
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Diagnosis of pulmonary lophomoniasis infection in patient with systemic lupus erythematosus; A case report and literature review [PDF]

Respirology Case Reports
Over the past 30 years, there has been an increasing number of documented human infections associated with the protozoan Lophomonas, specifically Lophomonas blattarum, which is considered a relatively rare infection.
Mohammad Hadi Tajik Jalayeri, Mehrdad Aghaei, Mahdi Mazandarani, Narges Lashkarbolouk, Ali Sharifpour   +4 more
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First report of Lophomonas infection in a patient with AML‐2 from Qeshm Island, Persian Gulf, southern Iran [PDF]

Respirology Case Reports, 2022
Immunocompromised patients are frequently more susceptible to pathogens such as protozoa. For the first time, we report a case of pulmonary lophomoniasis in a known case of acute myeloid leukaemia (AML‐2) from Qeshm Island, Persian Gulf, southern Iran ...
Ali Sharifpour, Hossein Zarrinfar, Mahdi Fakhar, Zakaria Zakariaei, Mostafa Soleymani, Elham Sadat Banimostafavi, Maryam Nakhaei   +6 more
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First molecular approach to diagnose paediatric pulmonary lophomoniasis: A case series [PDF]

Respirology Case Reports, 2022
A prospective study was conducted from 2017 to 2021 at Bouali Hospital in Mazandaran province, Sari, Iran. Out of 58 patients who were enrolled in our study, lophomoniasis was diagnosed in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid of nine patients, for the first time,
Amirmasoud Taheri, Mahdi Fakhar, Maryam Nakhaei, Elham Sadat Banimostafavi, Farzad Masiha, Javad Ghaffari, Soroush Sheydai, Mohammad Sadegh Rezaei, Ali Sharifpour   +8 more
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Molecular evidence of upper and lower respiratory infection due to Lophomonas in a post‐kidney transplantation patient [PDF]

Clinical Case Reports, 2022
We report a case of lophomoniasis in a kidney post‐transplantation patient. The patient, 46‐year‐old man, had pneumonia, acute sinusitis, and tonsillitis on admission.
Mahdi Fakhar, Sepideh Safanavaei, Maryam Nakhaei, Samira Esmaeili, Elham Sadat Banimostafavi, Fatemeh Spahbodi, Ali Sharifpour   +6 more
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Development and Validation of In-House Conventional and Multiplex PCR Methods for the Detection and Identification of Lophomonas spp.: An Innovative Approach [PDF]

Journal of Clinical Laboratory Analysis
Sequence alignment of the SSU rRNA of the two Lophomonas species, L. blattarum and L. striata. The red rectangle highlights the position of the reverse universal primer; the yellow, the L. blattarum‐specific forward primer; and the green, the L. striata‐specific forward primer used in multiplex PCR.
Maryam Ghasemi, Abouzar Bagheri, Ali Sharifpour   +2 more
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