We report the case of a 56-year old female patient with granulosa tumour of the ovary treated in our institute. She underwent complete resection followed by auxiliary chemotherapy according to BEP protocol (Bleomycine 30 Mg J1, J8 and J15, Etoposide 100mg/m J1-J5, Cisplatine 20 mg/m J1-J5). After her second cycle of BEP regimen, the patient had multiple skin linear hyperpigmentations at the lev...

Two different psychrophilic types of the heterotrophic nanoflagellate Paraphysomonas imperforata were isolated from Newfoundland coastal waters and the Arctic Ocean. When fed bacteria without food limitation, both isolates were able to grow at temperatures from -1.8 to 20°C, with maximum growth rates of 3.28 day-' at 15°C and 2.28 day-l at 12.3°C for the Newfoundland and the Arctic isolates, re...

This study was based on the hypothesis that biofilms of the opportunistic pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa are successfully adapted to situations of protozoan grazing. We tested P. aeruginosa wild type and strains that were genetically altered, in structural and regulatory features of biofilm development, in response to the common surface-feeding flagellate Rhynchomonas nasuta. Early biofilms of...

A 27-year old male with Hodgkin's lymphoma was treated with combined chemotherapy that included bleomycin. He presented with pruritic erythematous, edematous linear lesions and was diagnosed to have flagellate hyperpigmentation, a rare side effect of bleomycin chemotherapy.

of bleomycin or its derivative peplomycin, occurs in 8-20% patients during systemic or local therapy (1). It characterised by a linear erythematous streak with hyperpigmentation (2, 3), and was first described by Moulin in 1970 (4). Herein, we present a typical case of flagellate erythema induced by Bleomycin. A 32 year-old Taiwanese male with mixed germ cell tumour of the anterior mediastinum ...

A 29-year-old woman with stage IVB Hodgkin's lymphoma was treated with doxorubicin, bleomycin, vinblastine, and dacarbazine. Two weeks after the first cycle was completed, she developed pruritic, linear erythematous lesions in a flagellate-like pattern on the trunk, neck and arms. After oral prednisone therapy and cessation of bleomycin, the lesions started to recede.

This study investigated the generation of dissolved free amino acids (DFAA) by the bacterivorous flagellate Rhynchomonas nasuta when feeding on abundant prey. Specifically, it examined whether this flagellate protist exhibits a chemosensory response towards those amino acids. The concentrations of glycine and the L- and D-enantiomers of glutamate, serine, threonine, alanine, and leucine were de...

Sir, Mucocutaneous side effects associated with bleomycin are stomatitis, ulcers, scaly erythematous and bullous lesions, sclerosis, nail changes, digital gangrene and pigmentary alterations. Hyperpigmentation occurring mainly on the pressure areas of the skin as well as in areas of scratch marks is seen in approximately 30% of patients. Flagellate hyperpigmentation is very characteristic of bl...