Unusual and Severe Complications of Acute Schistosomiasis in Travelers

Acute schistosomiasis (ASC) is a hypersensitivity reaction seen mostly in nonimmune travelers and manifests mainly with fever, urticaria, and respiratory symptoms. We describe unusual severe presentations of ASC in 3 patients, including hip-monoarthritis, peri-myocarditis, and optic neuritis. In all...

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Autores principales: Biber, Asaf, Petersil, Neta, Naaman, Efrat, Neuberger, Ami, Schwartz, Eli
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2022
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Brief Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9512705/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36172058
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofac443
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author Biber, Asaf
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Schwartz, Eli
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description Acute schistosomiasis (ASC) is a hypersensitivity reaction seen mostly in nonimmune travelers and manifests mainly with fever, urticaria, and respiratory symptoms. We describe unusual severe presentations of ASC in 3 patients, including hip-monoarthritis, peri-myocarditis, and optic neuritis. In all 3 patients, clinical symptoms appeared or worsened after praziquantel administration.
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spelling pubmed-95127052022-09-27 Unusual and Severe Complications of Acute Schistosomiasis in Travelers Biber, Asaf Petersil, Neta Naaman, Efrat Neuberger, Ami Schwartz, Eli Open Forum Infect Dis Brief Report Acute schistosomiasis (ASC) is a hypersensitivity reaction seen mostly in nonimmune travelers and manifests mainly with fever, urticaria, and respiratory symptoms. We describe unusual severe presentations of ASC in 3 patients, including hip-monoarthritis, peri-myocarditis, and optic neuritis. In all 3 patients, clinical symptoms appeared or worsened after praziquantel administration. Oxford University Press 2022-08-25 /pmc/articles/PMC9512705/ /pubmed/36172058 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofac443 Text en © The Author(s) 2022. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Infectious Diseases Society of America. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial reproduction and distribution of the work, in any medium, provided the original work is not altered or transformed in any way, and that the work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
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