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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: João André Alves Silva, M.D. [2]
Overview
Fresh produce and water can serve as vehicles for transmission and the sporulated oocysts are ingested (in contaminated food or water). The oocysts excyst in the gastrointestinal tract, freeing the sporozoites which invade the epithelial cells of the small intestine.
Pathogenesis
Life Cycle
Unsporulated oocysts of Cyclospora cayetanensis are excreted from infected persons. When freshly passed in stool, the oocyst is not infective (thus, direct fecal-oral transmission cannot occur, which differentiates Cyclospora from another important coccidian parasite, Cryptosporidium). Under adequate temperatures (23-32ºC), these take about 7-15 days to sporulate, in order to become infectious. After being ingested, from contaminated water and food, oocysts excyst to release elongated sporozoites. Sporozoites will then infect epithelial cells of the gastrointestinal tract, particularly those of the duodenum and jejunum. The sporozoites undergo asexual reproduction, originating meronts type I and II, which will then differentiate into gametocytes. These last will be fertilized to produce a zygote.[1][2] Inside the cells, zygotes undergo asexual multiplication and sexual development to mature into oocysts, which will be shed in stool.[3]
C. cayetanensis oocysts have also been isolated from non gastrointestinal sites, namely from sputum of immunocompromised patients with HIV and concomitant TB. This leads to hypothesis that C. cayetanensis may be an opportunistic pathogen.[4]
Transmission
The protozoan lives out its lifecycle intracellularly within the host’s epithelial cells and gastrointestinal tract. Infection is transmitted through the oral-fecal route, and begins when a person ingests oocysts in fecally contaminated food or water.
- Fresh produce and water can serve as vehicles for transmission and the sporulated oocysts are ingested (in contaminated food or water).
Microscopic Pathology
C. cayetanensis infects epithelial cells of the small intestine, especially those of the jejunum. Infected patients showed evidence of intestinal injury on endoscopy, such as erythema of the mucosa.
Histological samples of the small bowel of these patients showed affection of the lamina propria, with moderate inflammation of this region, with neutrophils identified in some cases. All studied patients had evidence of chronic inflammation, with identification of plasma cells in the mucosa.[5]
References
- ↑ Eberhard ML, Ortega YR, Hanes DE, Nace EK, Do RQ, Robl MG; et al. (2000). "Attempts to establish experimental Cyclospora cayetanensis infection in laboratory animals". J Parasitol. 86 (3): 577–82. doi:10.1645/0022-3395(2000)086[0577:ATEECC]2.0.CO;2. PMID 10864257.
- ↑ Ortega YR, Sanchez R (2010). "Update on Cyclospora cayetanensis, a food-borne and waterborne parasite". Clin Microbiol Rev. 23 (1): 218–34. doi:10.1128/CMR.00026-09. PMC 2806662. PMID 20065331.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Cyclosporiasis".
- ↑ Di Gliullo AB, Cribari MS, Bava AJ, Cicconetti JS, Collazos R (2000). "Cyclospora cayetanensis in sputum and stool samples". Rev Inst Med Trop Sao Paulo. 42 (2): 115–7. PMID 10810327.
- ↑ Connor BA, Shlim DR, Scholes JV, Rayburn JL, Reidy J, Rajah R (1993). "Pathologic changes in the small bowel in nine patients with diarrhea associated with a coccidia-like body". Ann Intern Med. 119 (5): 377–82. PMID 8338291.