Chandramathi, S. and Suresh, K. and Anita, Z.B. and Kuppusamy, Umah Rani (2012) Infections of Blastocystis hominis and microsporidia in cancer patients: are they opportunistic? Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 106 (4). pp. 267-269. ISSN 0035-9203, DOI 22340948.
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Chemotherapy can cause immunosuppression, which may trigger latent intestinal parasitic infections in stools to emerge. This study investigated whether intestinal parasites can emerge as opportunistic infections in breast and colorectal cancer patients (n=46 and n=15, respectively) undergoing chemotherapy treatment. Breast cancer patients were receiving a 5-fluorouracil/epirubicin/cyclophosphamide (FEC) regimen (6 chemotherapy cycles), and colorectal cancer patients were receiving either an oxaliplatin/5-fluorouracil/folinic acid (FOLFOX) regimen (12 cycles) or a 5-fluorouracil/folinic acid (Mayo) regimen (6 cycles). Patients had Blastocystis hominis and microsporidia infections that were only present during the intermediate chemotherapy cycles. Thus, cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy should be screened repeatedly for intestinal parasites, namely B. hominis and microsporidia, as they may reduce the efficacy of chemotherapy treatments.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Funders: | UNSPECIFIED |
| Additional Information: | Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Blastocystis hominis; Microsporidia; Opportunistic infection; Cancer; Chemotherapy |
| Subjects: | R Medicine |
| Depositing User: | Mr. Faizal Hamzah |
| Date Deposited: | 23 Feb 2012 03:04 |
| Last Modified: | 18 Mar 2019 08:21 |
| URI: | http://eprints.um.edu.my/id/eprint/2776 |
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