%0 Case Reports
%T An Unusual Case of Extra-Enteric Blastocystosis in the Uterine Cervix.
%A Escutia-Guzman Y
%A Martinez-Flores WA
%A Martinez-Ocaña J
%A Martinez-Pimentel R
%A Benitez-Ramirez M
%A Martinez-Hernandez F
%A Arroyo-Escalante S
%A Romero-Valdovinos M
%A Orozco-Mosqueda GE
%A Maravilla P
%J Korean J Parasitol
%V 58
%N 5
%D Oct 2020
%M 33202510
%F 1.776
%R 10.3347/kjp.2020.58.5.571
%X Extra-enteric infections by Blastocystis spp. have rarely been documented. Here, we report a case of extra-enteric blastocystosis in a patient with minimal cervicitis symptoms. A 47-year-old Hispanic female patient was attended in a primary health centre in Michoacan state, Mexico, for her routine gynaecological medical examination. As only symptom, she referred to a slight vaginal itching. The presence of several vacuolar-stages of Blastocystis spp. were identified by Papanicolaou staining; molecular identification was attempted by culture-PCR sequencing of a region of 18S gene from cervical and faecal samples obtained 2 months after cytological examination, even when patient declared that she tried self-medicating with vaginal ovules. Blastocystis ST1 was identified only in the faecal sample. The presence of Blastocystis spp. in the cervix of a patient with scarce symptomatology, demonstrates the extraordinary flexibility of this microorganism to adapt to new environments and niches.