Erin Alman-Updyke
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 21 Jul
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Right.
We also see, especially in people who are immunocompromised, so whether they are on immunosuppressive medications or maybe have uncontrolled HIV, the disease can spread outside of just the intestine and cause disease elsewhere, like, say, the biliary system.
That's the gallbladder and liver.
Or we sometimes see these kind of post-infectious inflammatory-type syndromes that we see after other foodborne illnesses like salmonella or campylobacter.
Right.
And these are things like inflammation in the eye, joint pain and inflammation, bladder inflammation.
And so it's kind of an interesting component that like we don't really have a handle on and it doesn't happen all that often.
But it certainly can happen where you have this prolonged extra intestinal illness as a result of like inflammatory response to this parasite.
The good news is that it is treatable and we use actually an antibiotic.
Yeah.
Even though it's not a bacteria.
I double checked the mechanism of action of the main antibiotic that we use, which is trimethoprin sulfamethoxazide or Bactrim or Ceptra in the U.S.
The mechanism of it is that it's a folate blocker.
It blocks the synthesis of folate.
And so like all organisms need folate and most single-celled organisms, including bacteria and many parasites, make their own folate.
And we don't.
We get it from our diet.
And so by blocking the synthesis of folate, this particular antibiotic can also work against some parasites, though not all.
That's very cool.
I know.
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