Blastocystis spp. In patients admitted to the internal medicine rooms of the “Joaquín Albarrán” hospital in Havana, Cuba, july 2011-june 2012
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Blastocystis spp., diarrheal diseaseAbstract
Introduction: Blastocystis spp. is a parasite that is usually associated with diarrheal disease. The aim of this study was to clinically characterize patients infec-ted with Blastocystis spp., who were treated in the in-ternal medicine wards at of the “Joaquín Albarrán” Hospital in Havana, Cuba between 2011-2012.
Methods: a cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted to identify Blastocystis spp. by examining feces from patients who were treated in the internal medicine wards at the “Joaquín Albarrán” Hospital in Havana, Cuba, between July 2011 and June 2012.
Results: it was found that the frequency of diarr-heal disease was 13.3 per 1000 admitted patients at the internal medicine unit. Fifty-two percent (52.4%) of patients with diarrheal disease had Blastocystis spp., as identified in their feces through microbiological analy-sis. Additionally, according to their frequency, the di-seases related to the positive cases of Blastocystis spp. were: anemia, arterial hypertension, diabetes mellitus type 2, ischemic cardio pathology and chronic liver di-sease. Fifty-eight percent (58%) of the patients infec-ted with Blastocystis were treated with antibiotics, and 86.1% of the cases were solved with such treatment.
Conclusions: the results of this study suggest that diarrheal disease may be caused by Blastocystis spp. Such finding should be thus considered in the diag-nostic algorithm of this pathology.
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