Updated classification of the phylum Parabasalia
Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology, Volume 71, Issue 4, July/August 2024.Abstract The phylum Parabasalia includes very diverse single‐cell organisms that nevertheless share a distinctive set of morphological traits. Most are harmless or beneficial gut symbionts of animals, but some have turned into parasites in other body compartments, the most notorious example being Trichomonas vaginalis in humans.
Vittorio Boscaro +5 more
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Pulmonary Lophomoniasis: An overlooked cause of non-resolving pneumonia [PDF]
Batna Journal of Medical SciencesLophomonas blattarum is a multiflagellated protozoan that occasionally causes pulmonary infection but is often misdiagnosed as bacterial pneumonia, lung mass, or tuberculosis.
Mohammed H. AL-SHAIKH +3 more
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Parasitic Gregarine blattarum Found Infecting American Cockroaches, Periplaneta americana, in a Population in Pulau Pinang, Malaysia [PDF]
, 2017 A study on the prevalence of a common endoparasite in the wild population of the American cockroach was conducted in Penang Island using a trapping method at several sampling sites on the island. Gregarine blattarum was found in the digestive ...
Nik Ahmad Irwan Izzaudin +2 more
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Retrospect and Prospect of Lophomonas blattarum Infections and Lophomoniasis Reported in China
OALib, 2014 Lophomonas blattarum is a recently discovered parasitic protozoan that may infect humans and cause serious respiratory symptoms which are deadly. This review has summarized recent findings on the etiological characteristics, routes of transmission, clinical symptoms, laboratory diagnosis, and treatment of L. blattarum infection and diseases in China.
Xianqun Rao +8 more
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, 2021 Background: In the last decade, several cases of bronchopulmonary lophomoniasis (BPL) have been recorded. Little information is available about epidemiological aspects on Lophomonas infection among BPL patients. The present study was aimed to investigate
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Evaluación morfológica de Lophomona blattarum de los informes clínicos en humanos en Perú. ¿Realmente son Lophomonas sp? [PDF]
Lophomonas sp. are anaerobic protists that live in the intestines of cockroaches and termites. However, it has been postulated that these protists enter humans and cause lung infections. There are two species of Lophomonas, L. striata and L.
Astete-Medrano , Delia Jessica +1 more
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Frecuencia de Lophomonas blattarum en muestras de secreciones respiratorias de pacientes con fracaso al tratamiento antimicrobiano frente a infección respiratoria de la Unidad de Cuidados Intensivos del Hospital III Emergencias Grau de abril de 2020 a abril de 2021 [PDF]
, 2020 El estudio tiene como objetivo determinar la frecuencia de Lophomonas blattarum en muestras de secreciones respiratorias de pacientes con fracaso al tratamiento antimicrobiano contra infección respiratoria, atendidos en la Unidad de Cuidados Intensivos ...
Domínguez Tello, Rusicka
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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 +1 more
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, 2021 Cockroaches are considered to be important reservoirs for protozoan and helminth parasites,particularly an emerging Lophomonas spp., protozoan parasite. German cockroaches, Blattella germanica (B.
Fakhar, Mahdi +19 more
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, 2017 105 p.Lophomonas sp. es un nuevo protozoario que se ha observado causando infecciones del aparato respiratorio; es un parásito habitual del tracto intestinal de las cucarachas (Periplaneta americana) y que no es reconocido como patógeno humano.
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