Evaluating the role of intestinal parasites in the high rates of irritable bowel syndrome in South America: a pilot study

Title:

Evaluating the role of intestinal parasites in the high rates of irritable bowel syndrome in South America: a pilot study

Creator:

Vasquez-Rios, George, Machicado, Jorge D, Gamero, Maria T, Pezua, Adriana, Betancourt, Angel B, Terashima, Angelica, and Marcos, Luis A

Identifier:

https://cdk.lib.cas.cz/client/handle/uuid:058d4bc3-ac1a-4aa6-8cd8-df25a358276d
uuid:058d4bc3-ac1a-4aa6-8cd8-df25a358276d
issn:1803-6465
doi:10.14411/fp.2015.065

Subject:

parazitické organismy, tračník, parasitic organisms, colon, Jižní Amerika, South America, soil-transmitted helminths, Blastocystis sp., functional gastrointestinal diseases, 2, and 59

Type:

model:article and TEXT

Format:

print, počítač, and online zdroj

Description:

There is limited data on the role of intestinal parasites in irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) in South America. We evaluated the association between intestinal parasitism and IBS status in Peru. Intestinal parasites were detected in 43% of the IBS cases and in 51% of the controls (P = 0.4). After excluding those infected by any parasite, the IBS prevalence remained high (22%; P = 0.7). No statistically significant difference was noted between IBS cases and controls in terms of monoparasitism, biparasitism or multiparasitism. Furthermore, the protist Blastocystis sp. was inversely associated with IBS., George Vasquez-Rios, Jorge D. Machicado, Maria T. Gamero, Adriana Pezua, Angel B. Betancourt, Angelica Terashima, Luis A. Marcos., and Obsahuje bibliografii

Language:

English

Rights:

http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
policy:public

Coverage:

1-4

Source:

Folia parasitologica | 2015 Volume:62 | Number:1

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