Screening for Parasitic Infection and Tuberculosis in Immunosuppressed and Pre-Immunosuppressed Patients: An Observational Study.
Echinococcus multilocularis
Entamoeba histolytica
Leishmania spp.
Strongyloides stercoralis
Trypanosoma cruzi
immunosuppression
latent tuberculosis infection
parasitological screening
Journal
Tropical medicine and infectious disease
ISSN: 2414-6366
Titre abrégé: Trop Med Infect Dis
Pays: Switzerland
ID NLM: 101709042
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
21 Sep 2021
21 Sep 2021
Historique:
received:
18
08
2021
revised:
08
09
2021
accepted:
17
09
2021
entrez:
26
9
2021
pubmed:
27
9
2021
medline:
27
9
2021
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
Reactivation of latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) or latent parasitic infection (LPI) during drug-induced immunosuppression can have serious consequences. The Division of tropical and humanitarian medicine of the Geneva University Hospitals runs a specific consultation for parasitic screening of immunosuppressed or pre-immunosuppressed patients. We sought to determine the seroprevalence of LTBI and LPI in such patients and explore its relationship with country of origin or previous travel in a retrospective, single-centre observational study from 2016 to 2019. Demographic data, travel history, ongoing treatments and results of the parasitological (
Identifiants
pubmed: 34564554
pii: tropicalmed6030170
doi: 10.3390/tropicalmed6030170
pmc: PMC8482080
pii:
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
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