Loiasis from where you don’t expect it: an illustrative case of misled diagnosis

In the absence of pathognomonic signs, the diagnosis of filarial infections relies on geographical exposure and morphology of microfilariae, which requires expertise. We present a case of loiasis in a patient not reporting exposure in areas of known Loa loa endemicity, whose diagnosis was achieved b...

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Autores principales: Nicolini, Ambra Laura, Tamarozzi, Francesca, Pomari, Elena, Mistretta, Manuela, Camera, Marco, Sepulcri, Chiara, Bassetti, Matteo, Gobbi, Federico G
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2022
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Clinical Pearls
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9635057/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35532187
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jtm/taac060
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author Nicolini, Ambra Laura
Tamarozzi, Francesca
Pomari, Elena
Mistretta, Manuela
Camera, Marco
Sepulcri, Chiara
Bassetti, Matteo
Gobbi, Federico G
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Tamarozzi, Francesca
Pomari, Elena
Mistretta, Manuela
Camera, Marco
Sepulcri, Chiara
Bassetti, Matteo
Gobbi, Federico G
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description In the absence of pathognomonic signs, the diagnosis of filarial infections relies on geographical exposure and morphology of microfilariae, which requires expertise. We present a case of loiasis in a patient not reporting exposure in areas of known Loa loa endemicity, whose diagnosis was achieved by molecular analysis of microfilariae.
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spelling pubmed-96350572022-11-07 Loiasis from where you don’t expect it: an illustrative case of misled diagnosis Nicolini, Ambra Laura Tamarozzi, Francesca Pomari, Elena Mistretta, Manuela Camera, Marco Sepulcri, Chiara Bassetti, Matteo Gobbi, Federico G J Travel Med Clinical Pearls In the absence of pathognomonic signs, the diagnosis of filarial infections relies on geographical exposure and morphology of microfilariae, which requires expertise. We present a case of loiasis in a patient not reporting exposure in areas of known Loa loa endemicity, whose diagnosis was achieved by molecular analysis of microfilariae. Oxford University Press 2022-05-07 /pmc/articles/PMC9635057/ /pubmed/35532187 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jtm/taac060 Text en © The Author(s) 2022. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of International Society of Travel Medicine. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
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Nicolini, Ambra Laura
Tamarozzi, Francesca
Pomari, Elena
Mistretta, Manuela
Camera, Marco
Sepulcri, Chiara
Bassetti, Matteo
Gobbi, Federico G
Loiasis from where you don’t expect it: an illustrative case of misled diagnosis
title Loiasis from where you don’t expect it: an illustrative case of misled diagnosis
title_full Loiasis from where you don’t expect it: an illustrative case of misled diagnosis
title_fullStr Loiasis from where you don’t expect it: an illustrative case of misled diagnosis
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title_short Loiasis from where you don’t expect it: an illustrative case of misled diagnosis
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topic Clinical Pearls
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9635057/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35532187
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jtm/taac060
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