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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
immunology and microbiology
Association of bacteriuria and urinary nitrosamine formation with Schistosoma haematobium infection in the Qalyub area of Egypt
Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 76, No. 4, Year 1982
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In Egypt, bladder cancer incidence is high in areas where the prevalence and intensity of Schistosoma haematobium infection is also high. Experimental evidence shows bladder carcinogenesis to be a multi-stage process which can be accelerated by many factors. N-nitroso compounds, some of which are known bladder carcinogens, can be formed from amine precursors and nitrate in urine during some bacterial infections. In experimental animals the growth of nitrosamine-induced urothelial cancers is accelerated by damage to the urothelium caused by S. haematobium infections, and by analogy in man this could account for the lower peak age of incidence of this cancer in Egypt by comparison with Europe. The present study was designed to investigate whether bacterial infection of the urinary tract was common in areas of endemic schistosomiasis and whether N-nitrosamines were regularly found to be associated with bacteriuria. Urine samples from young men in the Qalyub area of Egypt and from an adjacent Delta region were analysed for S. haematobium ova, the nature and intensity of any bacterial infection, nitrate and nitrite, and total N-nitroso compounds plus volatile N-nitrosamines. A relatively high prevalence of bacteriuria was found in young men with schistosomiasis and low levels of N-nitroso compounds were present in all specimens. When the groups were sub-divided on the basis of the ability of their bacterial flora to reduce nitrate to nitrite (the latter is required for the nitrosation of amine precursors to N-nitroso compounds), significantly higher levels of N-nitroso compounds were found in S. haematobium-infected individuals also infected with nitrate-reducing bacteria by comparison either with uninfected controls (p < 0 · 0005) or with those infected with non-nitrate-reducing bacteria (p <0 · 001). The results show N-nitroso compounds to be present in the urines of young men in areas of endemic S. haematobium infection in Egypt, and elevated levels of urinary N-nitroso compounds to be associated with infection of the urinary tract by various species of nitrate-reducing bacteria. © 1982 Oxford University Press.
Authors & Co-Authors
Hicks, R. M.
United Kingdom, London
Ucl Medical School
Ismail, Magdi M.
Egypt, Zagazig
Faculty of Veterinary Medicine
Walters, C. L.
United Kingdom, Leatherhead
Leatherhead Food Research
Beecham, P. T.
United Kingdom, Leatherhead
Leatherhead Food Research
Rabie, Mostafa F.
Egypt, Cairo
Faculty of Science
El-Alamy, Mohamed A.
Egypt, Cairo
Egyptian Ministry of Health and Population
Statistics
Citations: 77
Authors: 6
Affiliations: 5
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1016/0035-9203(82)90153-5
ISSN:
00359203
e-ISSN:
18783503
Research Areas
Cancer
Infectious Diseases
Study Design
Cross Sectional Study
Cohort Study
Study Locations
Egypt
Participants Gender
Male