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Lophomonas blattarum cockroach parasite that causes uncommon pneumonia in humans

Revista Mvz Cordoba, 2019
Lophomonas blattarum is a protozoan that parasites the intestinal tract of termites and cockroaches; It belongs to the supergroup Excavata, Parabasalia of first rank and Cristamonadida of second rank (1).
Francisco Camargo-Assis, Salim Máttar, Marco González T   +2 more
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Prevalencia de Lophomonas sp. en pacientes de un hospital general referencial del Callao, Perú [PDF]

, 2020
Lophomonas sp. es un protozoario endocomensal que presenta estadio de quiste y trofozoíto. Su estadio de quiste en excretas de cucarachas estaría asociado con los reportes de casos en humanos, los cuales se han incrementado desde su primer hallazgo en ...
Enrique Huarac, Efrain
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RESPIRATORY INFECTION ASSOCIATED WITH LOPHOMONAS SPP. IN A PATIENT WITH SUSPECTED LUNG NEOPLASM

Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases
A 76-year-old woman was admitted with progressive dyspnea that had worsened abruptly over the previous seven days and difficult-to-control bronchospasm.
Viviane Maria de Carvalho Hessel Dias, Lucas Viechniewski Vasconcellos, Luiza Manfroi Lattmann, Eduarda Ramos Carlesse, Gabriele da Silva   +4 more
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Lophomonas blattarum: A new flagellate causing respiratory tract infections.

Tropical parasitology, 2020
Lophomonas blattarum is a flagellate protozoan parasite which was originally described as a commensal in the gut of cockroaches. From the 1990s, reports started coming out of peoples Republic of China about its possible role in bronchopulmonary infections, and this was followed by reports from some other parts of the world as well.
Chaudhury, Abhijit, Parija, Subhash Chandra   +1 more
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Detection of Lophomonas blattarum—A Rare Parasitic Infection in an Elderly Patient: A Case Report [PDF]

Indian Journal of Respiratory Care
Lophomonas blattarum infection was detected in an elderly patient at a tertiary hospital in Bengaluru, India. The patient presented to the emergency room with high-grade fever and bronchopulmonary symptoms.
Kolla Vinod, Deepthi JS, Kavya Nagarajan, Kulamarva Kavyashree, Julee Singh, VC Dharani   +5 more
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Frecuencia de Lophomonas sp. en muestras de secreciones respiratorias de pacientes del Instituto Nacional de Salud del Niño de enero a marzo de 2017 [PDF]

, 2017
Determina la frecuencia de la infección por Lophomonas sp. en muestras de secreciones respiratorias de pacientes del Instituto Nacional de Salud del Niño (INSN). El estudio es observacional y analítico de corte transversal.
Cabanillas Espinoza, Carmen Elizabeth
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Lophomonas blattarum and bronchopulmonary disease

, 2020
The natural habitat of the multiflagellate protozoon Lophomonas blattarum is as an endocommensal in the hindgut of insects such as cockroaches. However, it also causes bronchopulmonary disease in humans. The aim of this paper was to review the literature
Rafael Martinez-Giró, Hugo Cornelis Van Woerden   +1 more
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Community-acquired pneumonia with an unusual radiographic pattern related to Lophomonas sp infection: case report

Lophomonas sp is a flagellated protozoan, described in the literature as a commensal in the digestive tract of insects such as cockroaches and termites. It has little association with the development of symptomatology in immunocompetent patients. However,
Salcedo-Badel, Lina, Daza-Daza, Carlos, Fernández-Chica, Dinno, Caicedo-Solarte, William, Alvarado-Castell, Huber, Maestre-Serrano, Ronald, Sánchez-Bolívar, Martha   +6 more
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Chronic Respiratory Allergy Caused by Lophomonas blattarum: A Case Report

Medical Laboratory Journal, 2018
Background and Objective: Lophomonas blattarum is a multi-flagellate protozoan that is commensal in hindgut of cockroaches and other insects. The protozoan can cause respiratory infection in humans.
Oghlniaz Jorjani, Abdolrahman Bahlkeh, Faramarz Koohsar, Beniamin Talebi, Ali Bagheri   +4 more
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The co-infection of lophomoniasis and tuberculosis in patients with respiratory symptoms; case series and literature review

Clinical Infection in Practice
Background: Lophomonas blattarum is an emerging important cause of bronchopulmonary infections in immunocompromised patients. Moreover, Tuberculosis (TB) continues to be a significant factor in the mortality of infectious diseases, particularly in ...
Mohammad Hadi Tajik Jalayeri, Rahmat Allah Sharifi far, Narges Lashkarbolouk, Mahdi Mazandarani   +3 more
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