Strongyloses gastro-intestinales et malabsorption des nutriments

Dakkak, A.

doi:10.1051/parasite/1990651073

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“…In metabolic and clinical absorption studies of Strongyloides-infected patients, carbohydrate absorption remains intact (Kotcher et al 1966;O'Brien, 1975) whereas fat malabsorption can be documented (Milner et al 1965). Dakkak (1990) extrapolated from a comparative perspective to suggest that compensatory mechanisms in the lower gut are not sufficient for recovery of all malabsorbed nutrients and that, through a systemic effect, there is poorer utilization of nutrients. Rampant strongyloidosis has been described in immuno-incompetent individuals such as patients with renal transplants.…”

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Pathways to the impairment of human nutritional status by gastrointestinal pathogens

Solomons¹

1993

Parasitology

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Gastrointestinal pathogens are of three varieties, those that can, and often do, take the life of the host, those that infect transiently and rarely are life-threatening, and those (parasites) that establish a relatively prolonged residence or colonization of the host's alimentary tract. In the case of the second form, if infections are recurrent, both catabolic effects during the episode and failure to digest foods and/or absorb nutrients results. Similarly, catabolic wastage through activation of the acute phase response, and interference with the host's acquisition of nutrients by maldigestion, malabsorption, intestinal losses and competition with the parasite burden can impair growth and nutrition with helminthic infections. Growth and nutrition with respect to all of the macronutrients and virtually all of the micronutrients have been documented to be adversely affected by gastrointestinal pathogens. For its burgeoning importance as a worldwide health problem, both with the HIV virus as a direct intestinal pathogen and with the opportunistic gut infections occurring in the immunocompromised host, AIDS represents the emerging context of the impairment of nutritional status by intestinal pathogens.

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