Back to Search
Start Over
Transfusional Mansonella perstans microfilariasis.
- Source :
-
Parassitologia [Parassitologia] 2003 Jun; Vol. 45 (2), pp. 71-2. - Publication Year :
- 2003
-
Abstract
- Mansonella perstans filariasis is widely distributed across the center of Africa and equatorial America. We describe a case of post-transfusional M. perstans microfilariasis in a young child, affected with severe Plasmodium falciparum malaria, admitted in Goundi Hospital in South of Chad. A decrease of M. perstans microfilariasis in the patient's blood was observed, with no subsequent development of either clinical symptoms or eosinophilia. We suggest that, in endemic areas, transfused M. perstans microfilariae may be cleared from the blood over relatively short periods of time. It is likely that only adult worms are responsible for symptoms and eosinophilia, whereas microfilariae in the bloodstream are unable to give clinical manifestations.
- Subjects :
- Animals
Antimalarials therapeutic use
Diethylcarbamazine therapeutic use
Follow-Up Studies
Humans
Infant
Malaria, Falciparum complications
Malaria, Falciparum drug therapy
Male
Mansonella growth & development
Mansonelliasis complications
Mansonelliasis drug therapy
Mansonelliasis parasitology
Mebendazole therapeutic use
Microfilariae isolation & purification
Parasitemia parasitology
Quinine therapeutic use
Blood Donors
Carrier State parasitology
Disease Transmission, Infectious
Mansonella isolation & purification
Mansonelliasis transmission
Parasitemia transmission
Transfusion Reaction
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0048-2951
- Volume :
- 45
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Parassitologia
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 15266999