Blastocystosis in patients with gastrointestinal symptoms: a case–control study

BMC Gastroenterology

Research Article

Ayhan Hilmi Cekin¹  Basak Oguz Yolcular²  Ezel Tasdemir³  Yesim Adakan³  Yesim Cekin⁴  Fatma Gulsun Koclar⁵ 

[1] Deparment of Gastroenterology, Antalya Training and Research Hospital, Antalya, Turkey;Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, Akdeniz University Faculty of Medicine, Antalya, Turkey;Department of Internal Medicine, Antalya Training and Research Hospital, Antalya, Turkey;Department of Microbiology, Antalya Training and Research Hospital, Antalya, Turkey;Department of Parositology, Antalya Training and Research Hospital, Antalya, Turkey;

关键词: Ulcerative colitis;    Crohn’s disease;    Irritable bowel syndrome;    Blastocystis spp;   

DOI  :  10.1186/1471-230X-12-122

 received in 2011-12-17, accepted in 2012-08-31,  发布年份 2012

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

BackgroundBlastocystosis is a frequent bowel disease. We planned to to evaluate the prevalence of Blastocystis spp. in patients who applied to the same internal medicine-gastroenterology clinic with or without gastrointestinal complaints to reveal the association of this parasite with diagnosed IBS and IBD.MethodsA total of 2334 patients with gastrointestinal symptoms composed the study group, which included 335 patients with diagnosed inflammatory bowel disease and 877 with irritable bowel syndrome. Patients without any gastrointestinal symptoms or disease (n = 192) composed the control group. Parasite presence was investigated by applying native-Lugol and formol ethyl acetate concentration to stool specimens, and trichrome staining method in suspicious cases.ResultsBlastocystis spp. was detected in 134 patients (5.74%) in the study group and 6 (3.12%) in the control group (p = 0.128). In the study group, Blastocystis spp. was detected at frequencies of 8.7% in ulcerative colitis (24/276), 6.78% in Crohn’s disease (4/59), 5.82% in irritable bowel syndrome (51/877), and 4.9% in the remaining patients with gastrointestinal symptoms (55/1122). Blastocystis spp. was detected at a statistically significant ratio in the inflammatory bowel disease (odds ratio [OR] = 2.824; 95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.149-6.944; p = 0.019) and ulcerative colitis (OR = 2.952; 95% CI: 1.183-7.367; p = 0.016) patients within this group compared to controls. There were no statistically significant differences between the control group and Crohn’s disease or irritable bowel syndrome patients in terms Blastocystis spp. frequency (p = 0.251, p = 0.133).ConclusionsBlastocystosis was more frequent in patients with inflammatory bowel disease, especially those with ulcerative colitis. Although symptomatic irritable bowel syndrome and Crohn’s disease patients had higher rates of Blastocystis spp. infection, the differences were not significant when compared to controls.

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