Sanjib K Sardar, Gaurav Goel, Ajanta Ghosal, Rasika Deshmukh, Sanjay Bhattacharya, Tapas Haldar, Md Maimoon Maruf, Rajkumar Mahto, Jeevan Kumar, Saurabh J Bhave, Shanta Dutta, Sandipan Ganguly
Cyclospora cayetanensis, a recently described coccidian parasite causes severe gastroenteric disease worldwide. Limited studies are found on the incidence of C. cayetanensis infection from India; hence remains largely unknown. To date, no case of cyclosporiasis from eastern India has been reported. In this study, we described an incidental case of C. cayetanensis in a 30 years old Bengali female patient with no travel history from eastern India. In June 2022, the patient presented with a history of diarrhoea persisting for more than two months with continuous passage foul smelling stools for which she took multiple antibiotics that were ineffective...
July 27, 2023: Journal of Infection in Developing Countries