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Molecular Evidence of Emerged Pulmonary Lophomoniasis due to Lophomonas blattarum among Hospitalized Patients in Southwestern Iran: A National Registry-Based Study [PDF]

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Infectious Diseases, 2022
Objectives. Lophomonas protozoan is an emerging pathogen transmitted through arthropods such as cockroaches. Lophomoniasis is still a mysterious disease with many unknown epidemiological aspects.
Kobra Mokhtarian, Simin Taghipour, Maryam Nakhaei, Amirmasoud Taheri, Ali Sharifpour, Mahdi Fakhar, Hajar Ziaei Hezarjaribi   +6 more
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A Rare Case of Bronchopulmonary Infection by Lophomonas Blattarum : A Case Report

Journal of Nepal Medical Association
Lophomonas blattarum is a flagellated protozoan parasite found in cockroaches' and termites' hindgut. It can rarely cause bronchopulmonary infection in humans, especially in people with other comorbidities or immunocompromised, but the prevalence and ...
Arun Kumar Mahato, Sonu Shah, Rupak K C, Sudarshan Kandel, Neetika Paudel, Saharoj Siddiqui, Niranjan K C   +6 more
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Misidentification of Lophomonas Blattarum: Methodological Flaws and Taxonomic Confusion in Molecular Diagnostics

Advanced Biomedical Research
Background: Lophomonas blattarum is a protozoan, which is controversial regarding pathogenicity in the respiratory disease, and identification methods. This study investigated the presence of this protozoan in patients admitted to the intensive care unit
Nasrin Saberi Shahr-Babaki, Mitra Samareh Fekri, Majid Fasihi-Harandi, Behnam Dalfardi, Mohsen Shafiepour Marji   +4 more
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Study of Lophomonas blattarum Infection in Kidney Transplant Patients in Mashhad City, Iran [PDF]

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Infectious Diseases, 2020
Background. Lophomonas blattarum is a flagellate protozoan which is known as an emerging parasite in the human respiratory system. Organ transplant recipients are considered as immunocompromised patients due to prescription of immunosuppressive drugs ...
Zahra Gheisari, Fariba Berenji, Fatemeh Nazemian, Seyed Ali Akbar Shamsian, Lida Jarahi, Mahmoud Parian, Bibi Razieh Hosseini Farash, Ghodratollah Salehi Sangani   +7 more
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Diagnosis of pulmonary lophomoniasis infection in patient with systemic lupus erythematosus; A case report and literature review

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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Bronchopulmonary Lophomonas blattarum Infection: Still a Pending Issue

Chinese Medical Journal, 2017
We thank Dr. Martinez-Giron for the interest in our article about bronchopulmonary Lophomonas blattarum infection. However,all the reported cases of bronchopulmonary L. blattarum infection are just relied on light microscopic findings.
Ran Li, Zhan-Cheng Gao
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Imaging patterns of Lophomonas blattarum infection in the respiratory tract: a registry-based analysis

BMC Infectious Diseases
Background Lophomonas blattarum is an emerging protozoan that mostly infects the lower respiratory tract and causes pulmonary lophomoniasis. Radiologic findings in patients with pulmonary lophomoniasis have yet to be studied.
Amirmasoud Taheri, Mahdi Fakhar, Ali Sharifpour, Elhamsadat Banimostafavi, Sepideh SafaNavaei, Siavash Abedi, Hossein Mehravaran, Masoud Aliyali, Ahmad Shafahi, Asieh Delpzir   +9 more
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DETECCIÓN DE Lophomonas blattarum EN MUESTRAS DE ESPUTO TEÑIDAS CON AZUL DE METILENO DE INDIVIDUOS ADULTOS DE UN ÁREA URBANA DE LA PROVINCIA DE CHIRIQUÍ. [PDF]

Tecnociencia, 2020
Lophomonas es un género de protozoos flagelados que contiene dos especies, Lophomonas striata y L. blattarum. Ambas son consideras endocomensales parásitos de insectos domésticos. Aunque L.
Rina Sobarzo, Géminis Vargas, Melva Pinto, Ariel Magallón Tejada   +3 more
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Lophomonas blattarum Associated Broncho- Pulmonary Infection After Immunotherapy: A Case Report and A Smart-phone Based Video of Trophozoite

Türkiye Parazitoloji Dergisi, 2019
The frequency of bronchopulmonary protozoan infections has raised due to increased number of immunosuppressed patients in recent years. One of them is Lophomonas blattarum which is a multi-flagellated protozoan parasite of termites and several cockroach ...
Orçun Zorbozan, Ahmet Uysal, Feza Bacakoğlu, Nevin Turgay, Seray Töz   +4 more
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First molecular approach to diagnose paediatric pulmonary lophomoniasis: A case series

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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