Acute Chagas Disease Manifesting as Orbital Cellulitis, Texas, USA

We report a case of acute, vectorborne Chagas disease, acquired locally in central Texas, USA, manifesting as Romaña’s sign, which was initially mistaken for orbital cellulitis. After the infection failed to respond to antibiotics, DNA-based next generation sequencing on plasma yielded high levels o...

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Autores principales: Hudson, F. Parker, Homer, Natalie, Epstein, Aliza, Mondy, Kristin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8544979/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34670654
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2711.203698
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description We report a case of acute, vectorborne Chagas disease, acquired locally in central Texas, USA, manifesting as Romaña’s sign, which was initially mistaken for orbital cellulitis. After the infection failed to respond to antibiotics, DNA-based next generation sequencing on plasma yielded high levels of Trypanasoma cruzi; results were confirmed by PCR.
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spelling pubmed-85449792021-11-06 Acute Chagas Disease Manifesting as Orbital Cellulitis, Texas, USA Hudson, F. Parker Homer, Natalie Epstein, Aliza Mondy, Kristin Emerg Infect Dis Dispatch We report a case of acute, vectorborne Chagas disease, acquired locally in central Texas, USA, manifesting as Romaña’s sign, which was initially mistaken for orbital cellulitis. After the infection failed to respond to antibiotics, DNA-based next generation sequencing on plasma yielded high levels of Trypanasoma cruzi; results were confirmed by PCR. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2021-11 /pmc/articles/PMC8544979/ /pubmed/34670654 http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2711.203698 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is a publication of the U.S. Government. This publication is in the public domain and is therefore without copyright. All text from this work may be reprinted freely. Use of these materials should be properly cited.
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Acute Chagas Disease Manifesting as Orbital Cellulitis, Texas, USA
title Acute Chagas Disease Manifesting as Orbital Cellulitis, Texas, USA
title_full Acute Chagas Disease Manifesting as Orbital Cellulitis, Texas, USA
title_fullStr Acute Chagas Disease Manifesting as Orbital Cellulitis, Texas, USA
title_full_unstemmed Acute Chagas Disease Manifesting as Orbital Cellulitis, Texas, USA
title_short Acute Chagas Disease Manifesting as Orbital Cellulitis, Texas, USA
title_sort acute chagas disease manifesting as orbital cellulitis, texas, usa
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8544979/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34670654
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