Intestinal nematodes and pulmonary tuberculosis


Autoria(s): Tristão-Sá,Ricardo; Ribeiro-Rodrigues,Rodrigo; Johnson,Luciléia T.; Pereira,Fausto Edmundo L.; Dietze,Reynaldo
Data(s)

01/10/2002

Resumo

We report a significantly higher prevalence of intestinal nematodes in patients with pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) compared to a matched control group: 33/57 (57.8%) in patients with TB and 18/86 (20.9%) in the control group; OR=5.19; 95% CI= 2.33-11.69; p=0.000). When TB patients eosinophilia was also significantly higher among those with intestinal parasites (69.8%) compared to those without this condition (45.6%). We hypothesized that the immune modulation induced by nematodes is a factor that enhances TB infection/progression and that eosinophilia seen in TB patients is a consequence of helminth infection.

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http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0037-86822002000500020

Idioma(s)

en

Publicador

Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical - SBMT

Fonte

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical v.35 n.5 2002

Palavras-Chave #Tuberculosis #Helminthiasis #Strongyloidiasis #Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Tipo

journal article