Putative Bronchopulmonary Flagellated Protozoa in Immunosuppressed Patients

Table 1

Sociodemographic, clinical, and laboratory findings of nine cases detected with flagellated protozoal forms.

	Case  1	Case  2	Case  3	Case  4	Case  5	Case  6	Case  7	Case  8	Case  9
Gender	Male	Male	Male	Male	Female	Male	Male	Male	Male
Age	48	60	56	76	71	49	74	78	67
Occupation	Worker	Farmer	Worker	Farmer	Housewife	Worker	Farmer	Farmer	Retired
Socioeconomic status	Low	Low	Low	Low	Low	Low	Low	Low	Low
Presence of cockroaches in the house	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes
Symptom	Weakness	Weight loss	Dyspnea	Weight loss	Cough	Dyspnea	Dyspnea	Dyspnea	Weakness
Comorbidity	Diabetes mellitus	Psoriasis	Lung cancer	Kaposi sarcoma	COPD	COPD	COPD,; hypertension	Alzheimer, nasopharyngeal carcinoma	Psoriasis
Radiological findings	Reticular infiltration	Reticular infiltration and bronchiectasis	Alveolar opacities in right upper lung	Reticular infiltration	Reticular infiltration	Lung abscess and pyothorax	Lobar infiltration	Multilobar; infiltration; and atelectasis	Reticular infiltration
White blood cell (×10^9)	7.7	10.8	9.6	6.5	14.2	14.7	11.6	27.0	13.7
Neutrophil (%)	65.4	58.5	63.7	45.7	69.3	64.1	52.4	71.4	56.9
Lymphocyte (%)	25.1	30.2	22.5	38.6	20.1	22.6	21.6	22.6	27.2
Eosinophil (%)	2.4	4.7	4.1	7.1	3.3	1.4	11.3	2.8	7.4
Erythrocyte sedimentation rate	65	88	69	81	46	94	53	104	59
Presence of malignancy	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Usage of corticosteroid	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	No
Usage of anti-TNF-𝛼 drugs	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes
Duration of metronidazole; treatment (days)	30	30	30	30	30	30	30	30	30
Flagellated protozoa after treatment	Eradicated	Eradicated	Eradicated	Eradicated	Eradicated	Eradicated	Eradicated	Eradicated	Eradicated

COPD: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.