Cyclospora cayetanensis: this emerging protozoan pathogen in Mexico.

José T Sánchez-Vega Héctor A Cabrera-Fuentes Addi J Romero-Olmedo José L Ortiz-Frías Flura Sokolina Guillermo Barreto

Am J Trop Med Hyg

Parasitology Laboratory, Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico; Faculty of Chemical Sciences, Universidad Autonoma Benito Juarez de Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico; LOEWE Research Group Lung Cancer Epigenetics, Max-Planck-Institute for Heart and Lung Research, Bad Nauheim, Germany; Unidad Medica Familiar, Delegacion Sur, Unidad 21 Valle de Mexico, Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, Mexico City, Mexico; Institute of Fundamental Medicine and Biology, Kazan Federal University, Tatarstan, Russia; Biochemistry Institute, Medical School, Justus-Liebig University, Giessen, Germany.

Published: February 2014

A Mexican airline pilot had clinical manifestations of illness after a five-day stay in Lima, Peru. Six months later in Mexico, he was given a diagnosis of infection with Cyclospora cayetanensis by using coproparasitoscopic serial tests. He was treated twice with nitazoxadine successfully.

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