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Amirmasoud Taheri1, Mahdi Fakhar1, Maryam Nakhaei1
1Toxoplasmosis Research Center, Communicable Diseases Institute Iranian National Registry Center for Lophomoniasis (INRCL), Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences Sari Iran.
Abstract:
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, using an in-house polymerase chain reaction technique. All patients were treated with metronidazole at 7.5 mg/kg/day every 12 h for 14 days. After 6 months of follow-up, symptoms were fully resolved.
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