Intestinal spirochetosis: first cases reported in Brazil and the use of immunohistochemistry as an aid in histopathological diagnosis Espiroquetose intestinal: primeiros casos no Brasil e o uso de técnicas imunohistoquímicas como ajuda no diagnóstico histopatológico

• Published in: Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo
• Main Authors: T. de Brito, Marina P. Sandoval, Ana G. Silva, R. C. Saad, W. Colaiacovo
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade de São Paulo (USP) 1996
• Subjects: Intestinal Spirochetosis; Brachyspira aalborgi; Immunohistochemistry; Anti-leptospiral and anti-treponemal sera; Antigen detection; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Infectious and parasitic diseases; RC109-216; Arctic; Urna
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1590/S0036-46651996000100009; https://doaj.org/article/614d2e73a9214439b76fd99d34f2d7ba

Colonization of the colon and rectum by intestinal spirochetes is detected for the first time in Brazil in 4 of 282 (1.41%) patients who had undergone sigmoidoscopy and/or colonoscopy with a histopathological diagnosis of chronic non specific-colitis. This frequency is probably understimated, since...