Table 1.
Clinical information about the patient cohort used in this study.
Control Patients | ||||||
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Age | Sex | Travel History | Region Biopsied | Symptoms | Additional Relevant | Serology |
34 | Male | N/A | Unidentified colonic region | Chronic diarrhea | None | Not tested |
40 | Male | 2017: Australia and New Zealand | Transverse colon | None, Crohn’s surveillance | Ileocolonic Crohn’s disease | Not tested |
48 | Female | N/A | Unidentified colonic region | Chronic diarrhea and pain | None | Not tested |
55 | Female | N/A | Descending colon | Worsening ulcerative colitis symptoms over past 6 months | Left-sided ulcerative colitis | Not tested |
56 | Female | N/A | Descending colon | Intermittent diarrhea | None | Not tested |
57 | Male | N/A | Sigmoid colon | Sigmoid colitis | None | Not tested |
61 | Female | N/A | Rectum | Nausea, vomiting, diarrhea | Aplastic anemia, status post hematopoietic stem cell transplant | Not tested |
80 | Female | N/A | Unidentified colonic region | Diarrhea | None | Not tested |
Schistosomiasis Patients | ||||||
Age | Sex | Travel History | Region Biopsied | Symptoms | Additional Relevant | Serology |
35 | Female | 2009: Yemen | Rectum | Chronic left flank pain, nausea and passage of tissue per rectum | Present: Chronic active gastritis 2016: H. pylori infection |
Positive |
51 | Female | Recent travel to Philippines | Rectosigmoid colonic junction | Chronic non-bloody diarrhea | Tubular colonic adenoma and hyperplastic polyp present in same biopsy | Negative |
61 | Female | N/A | Ascending colon | None, presents for high-risk colon cancer surveillance | None | Not tested |
66 | Male | N/A | Cecum | None, colonoscopy screening | Tubulovillous adenoma present in same biopsy | Negative |
70 | Male | Immigrant from China | Rectum | Rectal bleeding and pain | Prior schistosomiasis infection during childhood, treated twice | Not tested |
71 | Female | Recent immigrant from China | Rectum | None, follow-up for prior rectal adenocarcinoma | 2018: Rectal adenocarcinoma | Negative |
86 | Female | N/A | Rectum | None | 2005 and 2010: Prior schistosomiasis infection in hepatic flexure | Not tested |