Plasmodium spp. and Borrelia burgdorferi co‐infection associated with antiphospholipid syndrome in a returned traveler: a case report

The differential diagnosis of fever in a returned traveler is wide and challenging. We present a case of a patient working in Africa, who returned with fever, constitutional symptoms, headache, and blurred vision. An initial diagnosis of malaria was made, and additional workup revealed Borrelia burg...

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Autores principales: Neves, Nélia, Silva‐Pinto, André, Rocha, Helena, Silva, Susana, Pereira, Edite, Sarmento, Antonio, Santos, Lurdes
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2017
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5378865/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28396771
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.871
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author Neves, Nélia
Silva‐Pinto, André
Rocha, Helena
Silva, Susana
Pereira, Edite
Sarmento, Antonio
Santos, Lurdes
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description The differential diagnosis of fever in a returned traveler is wide and challenging. We present a case of a patient working in Africa, who returned with fever, constitutional symptoms, headache, and blurred vision. An initial diagnosis of malaria was made, and additional workup revealed Borrelia burgdorferi co‐infection and antiphospholipid syndrome.
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spelling pubmed-53788652017-04-10 Plasmodium spp. and Borrelia burgdorferi co‐infection associated with antiphospholipid syndrome in a returned traveler: a case report Neves, Nélia Silva‐Pinto, André Rocha, Helena Silva, Susana Pereira, Edite Sarmento, Antonio Santos, Lurdes Clin Case Rep Case Reports The differential diagnosis of fever in a returned traveler is wide and challenging. We present a case of a patient working in Africa, who returned with fever, constitutional symptoms, headache, and blurred vision. An initial diagnosis of malaria was made, and additional workup revealed Borrelia burgdorferi co‐infection and antiphospholipid syndrome. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2017-03-02 /pmc/articles/PMC5378865/ /pubmed/28396771 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.871 Text en © 2017 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Neves, Nélia
Silva‐Pinto, André
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Silva, Susana
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Sarmento, Antonio
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Plasmodium spp. and Borrelia burgdorferi co‐infection associated with antiphospholipid syndrome in a returned traveler: a case report
title Plasmodium spp. and Borrelia burgdorferi co‐infection associated with antiphospholipid syndrome in a returned traveler: a case report
title_full Plasmodium spp. and Borrelia burgdorferi co‐infection associated with antiphospholipid syndrome in a returned traveler: a case report
title_fullStr Plasmodium spp. and Borrelia burgdorferi co‐infection associated with antiphospholipid syndrome in a returned traveler: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Plasmodium spp. and Borrelia burgdorferi co‐infection associated with antiphospholipid syndrome in a returned traveler: a case report
title_short Plasmodium spp. and Borrelia burgdorferi co‐infection associated with antiphospholipid syndrome in a returned traveler: a case report
title_sort plasmodium spp. and borrelia burgdorferi co‐infection associated with antiphospholipid syndrome in a returned traveler: a case report
topic Case Reports
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5378865/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28396771
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.871
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