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Volume 21, Number 1—January 2015
Dispatch

Acute Blastocystis-Associated Appendicular Peritonitis in a Child, Casablanca, Morocco

Emilie Fréalle1Comments to Author , Dima El Safadi1, Amandine Cian, Estelle Aubry, Gabriela Certad, Marwan Osman, Agnès Wacrenier, Emmanuel Dutoit, Colette Creusy, François Dubos, and Eric Viscogliosi
Author affiliations: University of Lille, University Hospital Center, Lille, France (E. Fréalle, E. Aubry, A. Wacrenier, E. Dutoit, F. Dubos); Pasteur Institute of Lille, Center for Infection and Immunity of Lille, Lille (E. Fréalle D. El Safadi, A. Cian, G. Certad, M. Osman, E. Viscogliosi); Doctoral School of Sciences and Technology, Lebanese University, Tripoli, Lebanon (D. El Safadi, M. Osman); Hospital Group of the Catholic Institute of Lille, France (C. Creusy)

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Table

Microbiological examination of samples of feces, appendix, recto-uterine pouch, and peritoneal fluid from child who had peritonitis, Casablanca, Morocco*

Variable
 Date of sampling, 2013
Aug 30
Sept 1
Nov 13
Procedure/result
 Feces
 Appendix
 Recto-uterine pouch
 Peritoneal fluid
 Feces
Microscopic examination
 Numerous Blastocystis vacuolar forms; no Cryptosporidium or other parasites
Presence of rare Blastocystis†
 ND
 ND
Absence of parasites
Real-time PCR
Blastocystis spp. Positive Positive Positive Positive Negative
Cryptosporidium spp.
 Negative
Negative
 Negative
 Negative
ND
Sequencing
Blastocystis spp. genotype
 ST2, ST3
ST3
 ST3
 ST3
ND
Bacterial culture
 Negative for Salmonella, Shigella, Campylobacter, Yersinia enterocolitica
ND
 Multimicrobial 
flora
 Multimicrobial flora
ND
Viral antigen detection
Negative for aenovirus and rotavirus
ND
 ND
 ND
ND
*ND, not done; ST, subtype.
†Figure, panels B,C.

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1These authors contributed equally to this article.

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