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- Title
Outbreak of Cyclosporiasis in Korean Travelers Returning from Nepal.
- Authors
Da-Won Ma; Myoung-Ro Lee; Bora Ku; Shin-Hyeong Cho; Sang-Eun Lee
- Abstract
Cyclospora cayetanensis is an apicomplexan protozoan and is one of the most common pathogens causing chronic diarrhea worldwide. Eight stool samples with diarrheal symptom out of 18 Korean residents who traveled to Nepal were obtained, and examined for 25 enteropathogens including 16 bacterial species, 5 viral species, and 4 protozoans in stool samples as causative agents of water-borne and food-borne disease. Only C. cayetanensis was detected by nested PCR, and 3 PCR-positive samples were sequenced to confirm species identification. However, the oocysts of C. cayetanensis in fecal samples could not be detected by direct microscopy of the stained sample. As far as we know, this is the first report of a group infection with C. cayetanensis from a traveler visiting Nepal, and the second report of a traveler’s diarrhea by C. cayetanensis imported in Korea.
- Subjects
NEPAL; SOUTH Korea; FOODBORNE diseases; WATERBORNE infection; TRAVELERS; SYMPTOMS; FECES; OOCYSTS
- Publication
Korean Journal of Parasitology, 2020, Vol 58, Issue 5, p589
- ISSN
0023-4001
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3347/kjp.2020.58.5.589