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Mansonella perstans causing symptomatic hypereosinophilia in a missionary family.
- Source :
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Travel medicine and infectious disease [Travel Med Infect Dis] 2006 Sep; Vol. 4 (5), pp. 275-80. Date of Electronic Publication: 2005 Oct 25. - Publication Year :
- 2006
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Abstract
- Mansonella perstans is rarely pathogenic. The rare reports of symptomatic cases, however, include severe complications. Three cases of symptomatic hypereosinophilia with multi-organ involvement are described in a missionary family returning from tropical Africa. Pathogenicity may be related to the induction of hypereosinophilia rather than direct host-parasite interactions.
- Subjects :
- Adolescent
Adult
Animals
Child
Female
Heart Valve Prosthesis
Humans
Hypereosinophilic Syndrome blood
Hypereosinophilic Syndrome drug therapy
Hypereosinophilic Syndrome parasitology
Ivermectin therapeutic use
Male
Mansonella drug effects
Mansonella immunology
Mansonelliasis blood
Mansonelliasis drug therapy
Missionaries
Mitral Valve Insufficiency surgery
Prednisolone therapeutic use
Religious Missions
Travel
Treatment Outcome
Filaricides therapeutic use
Hypereosinophilic Syndrome etiology
Mansonella isolation & purification
Mansonelliasis complications
Mitral Valve Insufficiency etiology
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1477-8939
- Volume :
- 4
- Issue :
- 5
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Travel medicine and infectious disease
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 16905458
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tmaid.2005.07.001