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Trichosporon asahii is the most important species regularly isolated from systemic mycoses and shows a predilection for hematogenous dissemination. This report describes the first fatal case of disseminated trichosporonosis caused by T. asahii in a patient with familial aplastic anemia (AA). An 11-year-old girl with familial AA received chemoradiotherapy and immunosuppressive therapy for bone marrow transplantation. She was neutropenic and suffered from fever, cough, and severe mouth ulcers. T. asahii was repeatedly demonstrated by appropriate morphological and physiological characteristics, i.e., arthroconidium formation, urease activity, and assimilation of carbon and nitrogen compounds. T. asahii was found in samples of sputum, nose, and mouth ulcers by direct microscopy and culturing. Furthermore, postmortem histopathology study revealed vast tissue invasion of fungal hyphae characteristic of Trichosporon in the lung and liver. Disseminated trichosporonosis should be suspected in immunocompromised patients when a febrile condition does not improve after prolonged treatment with broad-spectrum parenteral antibiotics.
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PMID:Disseminated, fatal Trichosporon asahii infection in a bone marrow transplant recipient. 1706 7

A 58-year-old man with cough and bloody sputum was admitted because of right lung tumor and thrombocytopenia. Idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) was diagnosed. For treatment of ITP, he was treated with platelet transfusions, intravenous gamma-globulin and oral prednisolone. However, the platelet count did not completely improved. Since a relationship between ITP and Helicobacter pylori (HP) infection has been reported, and result of urease test was positive, the patient was treated by HP eradication therapy. After the eradication therapy, the platelet count improved to the normal range. The diagnosis of squamous cell carcinoma of the lung was confirmed by a cervical lymph node biopsy. As a result of improvement in platelet count, we were able to perform the chemotherapy of lung cancer.
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PMID:[A case of lung cancer with idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura effectively treated for Helicobacter pylori]. 1818 49

Different parts of Acacia nilotica (L.) Delile, Calotropis procera (Aiton) W.T. Aiton, Adhatoda vasica Nees, Fagoniaar abica L. and Casuarina equisetifolia L. are traditionally used in folk medicine for the treatment of a variety of common ailments like nausea, cold, cough, asthma, fevers, diarrhea, sore throat, swelling, etc. The present study was aimed to evaluate the anti-Helicobacter pylori and urease inhibition activities of extracts produced from the above selected medicinal plants native to Soon Valley (home to an old civilization) in the Punjab province of Pakistan. Methanol, acetone and water extracts of the plants were evaluated for anti-bacterial activity against thirty four clinical isolates and two reference strains of H. pylori. Minimum inhibitory concentrations (MICs) of the extracts were determined using the agar dilution method and compared with some standard antibiotics like amoxicillin (AMX), clarithromycin (CLA), tetracycline (TET) and metronidazole (MNZ), used in the triple therapy for H. pylori eradication. H. pylori urease inhibition activity of the extracts was assessed by the phenol red method, wherein, Lineweaver-Burk plots were used to determine Michaelis-Menten constants for elucidating the mechanism of inhibition. Methanol and acetone extracts from Acacia nilotica and Calotropis procera exhibited stronger anti-H. pylori activity than MNZ, almost comparable activity with TET, but were found to be less potent than AMX and CLT. The rest of the extracts exhibited lower activity than the standard antibiotics used in this study. In the H. pylori urease inhibitory assay, methanol and acetone extracts of Acacia nilotica and Calotropis procera showed significant inhibition. Lineweaver-Burk plots indicated a competitive mechanism for extract of Acacia nilotica, whereas extract of Calotropis procera exhibited a mixed type of inhibition.
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PMID:Anti-Helicobacter pylori and urease inhibition activities of some traditional medicinal plants. 2343 67