North Italy: Welcome to the Tropics!

We describe a case of cutaneous Larva Migrans in an 8-year-old Caucasian girl. The lesion appeared ten days after a bath in the river in a valley in the north-east of Piedmont. The patient was successfully treated with Albendazole 400 mg daily for 5 days. Autochthonous cases are rare, particularly i...

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Autores principales: Veronese, Federica, Graziola, Francesca, Farinelli, Pamela, Zavattaro, Elisa, Tarantino, Vanessa, Esposto, Elia, Savoia, Paola
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2021
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8006043/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33807983
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/idr13010024
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author Veronese, Federica
Graziola, Francesca
Farinelli, Pamela
Zavattaro, Elisa
Tarantino, Vanessa
Esposto, Elia
Savoia, Paola
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Tarantino, Vanessa
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Savoia, Paola
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description We describe a case of cutaneous Larva Migrans in an 8-year-old Caucasian girl. The lesion appeared ten days after a bath in the river in a valley in the north-east of Piedmont. The patient was successfully treated with Albendazole 400 mg daily for 5 days. Autochthonous cases are rare, particularly in northern Italy. Probably the high temperatures and the high degree of humidity favored by the climate changes to which Europe is subjected are favorable to the development of larvae. The diagnosis of cutaneous Larva Migrans should, therefore, be considered also in individuals who have not traveled in geographic areas at risk for the climate.
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spelling pubmed-80060432021-03-30 North Italy: Welcome to the Tropics! Veronese, Federica Graziola, Francesca Farinelli, Pamela Zavattaro, Elisa Tarantino, Vanessa Esposto, Elia Savoia, Paola Infect Dis Rep Case Report We describe a case of cutaneous Larva Migrans in an 8-year-old Caucasian girl. The lesion appeared ten days after a bath in the river in a valley in the north-east of Piedmont. The patient was successfully treated with Albendazole 400 mg daily for 5 days. Autochthonous cases are rare, particularly in northern Italy. Probably the high temperatures and the high degree of humidity favored by the climate changes to which Europe is subjected are favorable to the development of larvae. The diagnosis of cutaneous Larva Migrans should, therefore, be considered also in individuals who have not traveled in geographic areas at risk for the climate. MDPI 2021-03-05 /pmc/articles/PMC8006043/ /pubmed/33807983 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/idr13010024 Text en © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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North Italy: Welcome to the Tropics!
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