Erin Alman-Updyke
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 21 Jul
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Like it's only the oocytes that they're producing.
Nope.
They're like, no, no, no.
We're just going to keep it continuous.
Keep it moving.
And so that can make it really hard to diagnose because if you're looking in the stool for these oocytes, they might be in very low numbers and they might not be there on one day.
And so you might have to look for multiple days in a row.
They're also hard to detect on like typical stool studies don't actually look for them.
And they don't stain the same way that other parasites do, which means you actually have to use like special stains to find them.
They're easier to detect with PCR-based methods.
And so I did check.
They are on our like GI pathogen panel that I order when someone has unexplained diarrhea that I don't know if I need to treat or not.
It is on ours.
But again, even though PCR helps because you're increasing the number, like the amount of DNA in the sample, it makes it easier to detect.
If you only have a couple of oocytes there, you still might not pick it up.
You might not pick it up.
It's really interesting.
And so how does it resolve?
I mean, either with time, though some people can have a kind of relapsing, remitting course.
So we do see that some people, you know, recover and then weeks later might have more symptoms or the symptoms are just like really, really prolonged.
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