Infections of Blastocystis hominis and microsporidia in cancer patients: are they opportunistic?
Chemotherapy can cause immunosuppression, which may trigger latent intestinal parasitic infections in stools to emerge. This study investigated whether intestinal parasites can emerge as opportunistic infections in breast and colorectal cancer patients (n=46 and n=15, respectively) undergoing chemot...
Main Authors: | Chandramathi, S., Suresh, K., Anita, Z.B., Kuppusamy, Umah Rani |
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Oxford University Press
2012
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