Explosive Campylobacter jejuni diarrhea in immunoproliferative small intestinal disease.
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.
Puri
A S
AS
Department of Gastroenterology, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow.
Aggarwal
R
R
Khan
E M
EM
Naik
S
S
Ayyagari
A
A
Pandey
R
R
Naik
S R
SR
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