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
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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Auteurs

Luisa Carnino (L)

Division of Tropical and Humanitarian Medicine, Geneva University Hospitals, Rue Gabrielle-Perret-Gentil 6, 1205 Geneva, Switzerland.
Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Rue Michel-Servet 1, 1205 Geneva, Switzerland.

Jean-Marc Schwob (JM)

Division of Tropical and Humanitarian Medicine, Geneva University Hospitals, Rue Gabrielle-Perret-Gentil 6, 1205 Geneva, Switzerland.

Dionysios Neofytos (D)

Division of Infectious Diseases, Geneva University Hospitals, Rue Gabrielle-Perret-Gentil 6, 1205 Geneva, Switzerland.

Maria Lazo-Porras (M)

Division of Tropical and Humanitarian Medicine, Geneva University Hospitals, Rue Gabrielle-Perret-Gentil 6, 1205 Geneva, Switzerland.
CRONICAS Center of Excellence in Chronic Diseases, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima 15102, Peru.

François Chappuis (F)

Division of Tropical and Humanitarian Medicine, Geneva University Hospitals, Rue Gabrielle-Perret-Gentil 6, 1205 Geneva, Switzerland.
Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Rue Michel-Servet 1, 1205 Geneva, Switzerland.

Gilles Eperon (G)

Division of Tropical and Humanitarian Medicine, Geneva University Hospitals, Rue Gabrielle-Perret-Gentil 6, 1205 Geneva, Switzerland.
Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Rue Michel-Servet 1, 1205 Geneva, Switzerland.

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