单个免疫受损患者多种原生动物感染:一个病例报告
Rupak Chatterjee1, Tanusree Mondal2, Gautam Barik3
1Department of Tropical Medicine, Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine, Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
Tropical parasitology
|October 20, 2023
概括
本案例报告详细介绍了一例罕见的免疫功能低下个体,感染人类免疫缺陷病毒 (HIV),并感染了五种不同的原生动物感染. 早期诊断和治疗对于管理这些HIV患者的机会性寄生虫感染至关重要.
科学领域:
- 传染性疾病 传染性疾病
- 免疫学 免疫学 免疫学
- 寄生虫学的寄生虫学
背景情况:
- 免疫功能低下的患者,特别是患有人类免疫缺陷病毒 (HIV) 的患者,极易患上机会性感染.
- 原生动物感染是艾滋病毒/艾滋病患者发病的重要原因.
- 与多种原生动物的同时感染也可能发生,但很少报告,特别是在初始呈现时.
研究的目的:
- 报告一个罕见的单个艾滋病毒感染患者的罕见病例,同时出现了五种原生动物感染.
- 突出免疫功能低下个体多种寄生虫共感染的诊断挑战和临床意义.
主要方法:
- 一个64岁的男性患有慢性腹的临床表现.
- 诊断工作包括艾滋病毒检测和便检查寄生虫囊和卵.
- 对Toxoplasma IgG的血清检测.
主要成果:
- 这名患者被诊断出患有艾滋病毒感染.
- 便检查显示了与Entamoeba histolytica,Giardia lamblia,Cryptosporidium物种和Cystoisospora物种同时感染的情况.
- 还检测到高位阳性毒素IgG,总共有五种原生动物感染.
结论:
- 这一案例强调了新诊断的免疫功能低下的艾滋病毒患者中多种多样化的原生动物共感染的可能性.
- 迅速识别和管理这些机会性感染对于患者的治疗结果至关重要.
- 在单个患者中这种广泛的原生动物共感染是非常罕见的,需要进一步的临床关注.
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