Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical | |
Intestinal nematodes and pulmonary tuberculosis | |
Ricardo Tristão-sá1  Rodrigo Ribeiro-rodrigues1  Luciléia T. Johnson1  Fausto Edmundo L. Pereira1  Reynaldo Dietze1  | |
[1] ,Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo Centro Biomédico Núcleo de Doenças InfecciosasVitória ES ,Brazil | |
关键词: Tuberculosis; Helminthiasis; Strongyloidiasis; Mycobacterium tuberculosis; Tuberculose; Helmintíases; Estrongiloidíase; Mycobacterium tuberculosis; | |
DOI : 10.1590/S0037-86822002000500020 | |
来源: SciELO | |
【 摘 要 】
We report a significantly higher prevalence of intestinal nematodes in patients with pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) compared to a matched control group: 33/57 (57.8%) in patients with TB and 18/86 (20.9%) in the control group; OR=5.19; 95% CI= 2.33-11.69; p=0.000). When TB patients eosinophilia was also significantly higher among those with intestinal parasites (69.8%) compared to those without this condition (45.6%). We hypothesized that the immune modulation induced by nematodes is a factor that enhances TB infection/progression and that eosinophilia seen in TB patients is a consequence of helminth infection.
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