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Cyclospora infection in an immunocompetent patient in Japan
Toshio Naito1, Saita Mizue, Shigeki Misawa
1Department of General Medicine, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Tokyo 113-8421, Japan. naito@med.juntendo.ac.jp
Abstract:
Cyclospora cayetanensis is a coccidian protozoa that was newly recognized in 1979 in Papua New Guinea. We report the case of a 42-year-old French man who had visited Vietnam and presented with fever and watery diarrhea that had lasted for more than 2 weeks. The patient was diagnosed with C. cayetanensis infection by examination of a stool smear using UV fluorescence microscopy. Based on this rare case, we recommend that Cyclospora infection might be considered in the differential diagnosis of traveler's diarrhea in immunocompetent patients.
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