Clinical symptoms and oral treatment with metronidazole were studied in 103 patients with pure infections by Blastocystis hominis. 2. The results showed that excessive flatulence is the chief gastrointestinal symptom associated occasionally with diarrhoea and abdominal cramps. All the patients showed good responses with treatment of metronidazole and 74 patients whose stools were reexamined 1-2 months after the treatment demonstrated no signs of infections. 3. It is concluded that B. hominis is a pathogenic intestinal parasite and the infection could be eradicated successfully by oral metronidazole.
Evaluation of cellular retinoic acid binding protein 2 gene expression through the retinoic acid pathway by co-incubation of Blastocystis ST-1 with HT29 cells in vitro.
通过体外将人芽囊原虫ST-1与HT29细胞共孵育,评估视黄酸途径中细胞视黄酸结合蛋白2基因的表达。
Parasitol Res. 2016 May;115(5):1965-75. doi: 10.1007/s00436-016-4939-z. Epub 2016 Feb 25.