title: Explosive Campylobacter jejuni diarrhea in immunoproliferative small intestinal disease.
abstract: Campylobacter jejuni is an infrequent cause of self limiting acute diarrheal disease in adults in the Indian subcontinent. We report the occurrence of a life threatening diarrhea due to C jejuni infection in a patient with immunoproliferative small intestinal disease. We postulate that immunosuppression due to malignancy, malnutrition and cancer chemotherapy was responsible for the unusually severe diarrhea.
authors.affiliation: Department of Gastroenterology, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow.
authors.forename: A S
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Puri
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Aggarwal
authors.forename: E M
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: Khan
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Naik
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ayyagari
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Pandey
authors.forename: S R
authors.initials: SR
authors.lastname: Naik
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002169:Campylobacter Infections / Q000150:complications*; D016123:Campylobacter jejuni / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D003967:Diarrhea / Q000382:microbiology*; D006801:Humans; D016867:Immunocompromised Host; D007161:Immunoproliferative Small Intestinal Disease / Q000150:complications*; D008297:Male