Explosive Campylobacter jejuni diarrhea in immunoproliferative small intestinal disease.
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in English
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| ID: sea-64727
ABSTRACT
Campylobacter jejuni is an infrequent cause of self limiting acute diarrheal disease in adults in the Indian subcontinent. We report the occurrence of a life threatening diarrhea due to C jejuni infection in a patient with immunoproliferative small intestinal disease. We postulate that immunosuppression due to malignancy, malnutrition and cancer chemotherapy was responsible for the unusually severe diarrhea.
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IMSEAR (South-East Asia)
Main subject:
Immunoproliferative Small Intestinal Disease
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Humans
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Male
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Campylobacter Infections
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Campylobacter jejuni
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Immunocompromised Host
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Adult
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Diarrhea
Language:
English
Year:
1992
Type:
Article
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