Current opinion in infectious diseases · 2026
Tropical sprue: a forgotten entity.
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Ramakrishna Balakrishnan S
Аннотация
PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Tropical sprue, once a major cause of malabsorption syndromes, is declining in prevalence. As a consequence of its rarity, and the absence of specific diagnostic tests, diagnosis of this condition is often delayed or missed. The purpose of this review is to draw attention again to this condition and to its overlap with postinfectious irritable bowel syndrome.
RECENT FINDINGS: Sporadic case reports of diagnosis in travelers to endemic countries as well as reports of its continuing occurrence in endemic countries indicate the need for continuing diagnosis of the disease. Most recently, the COVID pandemic saw a large number of patients with postinfection gastrointestinal symptoms that lasted longer than 6 months and were accompanied by malnutrition. These events deserve deeper investigation and resurrect coronaviruses as one possible cause of tropical sprue. Diagnosis of the disease is another evolving area and the original diagnostic criteria have to be modified in view of the lack of access to formal tests of absorption in most laboratories.
SUMMARY: Sporadic reports of nonceliac enteropathy with response to antibiotic treatment indicate that the disease needs to be considered in the differential diagnosis of malabsorption in the appropriate clinical context.
RECENT FINDINGS: Sporadic case reports of diagnosis in travelers to endemic countries as well as reports of its continuing occurrence in endemic countries indicate the need for continuing diagnosis of the disease. Most recently, the COVID pandemic saw a large number of patients with postinfection gastrointestinal symptoms that lasted longer than 6 months and were accompanied by malnutrition. These events deserve deeper investigation and resurrect coronaviruses as one possible cause of tropical sprue. Diagnosis of the disease is another evolving area and the original diagnostic criteria have to be modified in view of the lack of access to formal tests of absorption in most laboratories.
SUMMARY: Sporadic reports of nonceliac enteropathy with response to antibiotic treatment indicate that the disease needs to be considered in the differential diagnosis of malabsorption in the appropriate clinical context.