{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"submitter":["Escutia-Guzman Y"],"funding":["Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología"],"pagination":["571-576"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC7672234"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["58(5)"],"pubmed_abstract":["Extra-enteric infections by Blastocystis spp. have rarely been documented. Here, we report a case of extra-enteric blastocystosis in a patient with minimal cervicitis symptoms. A 47-year-old Hispanic female patient was attended in a primary health centre in Michoacan state, Mexico, for her routine gynaecological medical examination. As only symptom, she referred to a slight vaginal itching. The presence of several vacuolar-stages of Blastocystis spp. were identified by Papanicolaou staining; molecular identification was attempted by culture-PCR sequencing of a region of 18S gene from cervical and faecal samples obtained 2 months after cytological examination, even when patient declared that she tried self-medicating with vaginal ovules. Blastocystis ST1 was identified only in the faecal sa"],"journal":["The Korean journal of parasitology"],"pubmed_title":["An Unusual Case of Extra-Enteric Blastocystosis in the Uterine Cervix."],"pmcid":["PMC7672234"],"funding_grant_id":["CB-2011/168619"],"pubmed_authors":["Martinez-Hernandez F","Escutia-Guzman Y","Romero-Valdovinos M","Maravilla P","Martinez-Flores WA","Martinez-Pimentel R","Arroyo-Escalante S","Orozco-Mosqueda GE","Martinez-Ocana J","Benitez-Ramirez M"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"An Unusual Case of Extra-Enteric Blastocystosis in the Uterine Cervix.","description":"Extra-enteric infections by Blastocystis spp. have rarely been documented. Here, we report a case of extra-enteric blastocystosis in a patient with minimal cervicitis symptoms. A 47-year-old Hispanic female patient was attended in a primary health centre in Michoacan state, Mexico, for her routine gynaecological medical examination. As only symptom, she referred to a slight vaginal itching. The presence of several vacuolar-stages of Blastocystis spp. were identified by Papanicolaou staining; molecular identification was attempted by culture-PCR sequencing of a region of 18S gene from cervical and faecal samples obtained 2 months after cytological examination, even when patient declared that she tried self-medicating with vaginal ovules. Blastocystis ST1 was identified only in the faecal sa","dates":{"release":"2020-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2020 Oct","modification":"2025-04-04T22:53:34.855Z","creation":"2025-04-04T22:53:34.855Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC7672234","cross_references":{"pubmed":["33202510"],"doi":["10.3347/kjp.2020.58.5.571"]}}