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Nat Commun
July 2024
State Key Laboratory of Pathogenesis, Prevention and Treatment of High Incidence Diseases in Central Asia, Xinjiang Medical University; Clinical Medicine Research Institute, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xinjiang Medical University, Urumqi, Xinjiang, P. R. China.
Immune exhaustion corresponds to a loss of effector function of T cells that associates with cancer or chronic infection. Here, our objective was to decipher the mechanisms involved in the immune suppression of myeloid-derived suppressor cells (MDSCs) and to explore the potential to target these cells for immunotherapy to enhance checkpoint blockade efficacy in a chronic parasite infection. We demonstrated that programmed cell-death-1 (PD-1) expression was significantly upregulated and associated with T-cell dysfunction in advanced alveolar echinococcosis (AE) patients and in Echinococcus multilocularis-infected mice.
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February 2024
Faculty of Medicine, Department of Surgery, Saga University, 5-1-1 Nabeshima, Saga, 849-8501, Japan.
Anisakiasis is a parasitic infection caused by the ingestion of raw or undercooked seafood infected with Anisakis larvae. It generally affects the gastrointestinal tract, particularly the stomach, but very rare cases have been reported in which infection of the liver leads to the formation of inflammatory pseudotumors. We herein report an extremely rare case of an inflammatory pseudotumor induced by hepatic anisakiasis that was laparoscopically resected for the purpose of both diagnosis and treatment.
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November 2022
Department of Surgery, Mercy University Hospital, Cork, Ireland.
Enterobius vermicularis infection is typically observed in paediatric patients and manifests with perianal pruritus, but other manifestations or ectopic presentations have been reported in the literature. We present the case of a man in his 60ss with a large-bowel obstruction with symptoms including a 4-day history of progressive abdominal pain, distension, vomiting and absolute constipation. On examination, his abdomen was distended with tinkling bowel sounds on auscultation.
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June 2021
Pallas Klinik, Switzerland.
. Epididymal dirofilariasis is one of the unusual manifestations of this zoonosis. In Slovakia, this is the third case out of 20 infected patients in whom the worm (the parasite) was identified in the epididymis.
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April 2021
Institut für Pathologie, DIAKO Hospital Flensburg, Flensburg, Germany.
Cystic echinococcosis is a widely endemic helminthic disease worldwide but occurs only rarely in Central Europe. Humans are infected as 'aberrant' hosts by and develop cysts in numerous different organs. 20%-30% of the affected individuals develop hydatid disease in the lungs with associated complications including pleuritis, lung abscess and pneumothorax.
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