Simultaneous infection of amoebic liver abscess and hepatitis A infection in a young adult in an endemic region

Concomitant hepatitis A virus (HAV) and amoebic liver abscess are to be considered in patients with clinical signs and symptoms of fever, jaundice, and right upper quadrant pain, especially in endemic areas. Both diseases had similar epidemiology and identical mode of transmission, i.e., the feco-or...

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Autores principales: Puri, Saurabh, Randhawa, Gulshan Singh, Bhasin, Sukriti, Aggarwal, Rajat, Gera, Parkash
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2022
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9810883/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36618234
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_149_22
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author Puri, Saurabh
Randhawa, Gulshan Singh
Bhasin, Sukriti
Aggarwal, Rajat
Gera, Parkash
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description Concomitant hepatitis A virus (HAV) and amoebic liver abscess are to be considered in patients with clinical signs and symptoms of fever, jaundice, and right upper quadrant pain, especially in endemic areas. Both diseases had similar epidemiology and identical mode of transmission, i.e., the feco-oral route. We report a case of a young female with simultaneous infection of HAV and amoebic liver abscess, emphasizing the role of dual infection and its clinical manifestations.
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spelling pubmed-98108832023-01-05 Simultaneous infection of amoebic liver abscess and hepatitis A infection in a young adult in an endemic region Puri, Saurabh Randhawa, Gulshan Singh Bhasin, Sukriti Aggarwal, Rajat Gera, Parkash J Family Med Prim Care Case Report Concomitant hepatitis A virus (HAV) and amoebic liver abscess are to be considered in patients with clinical signs and symptoms of fever, jaundice, and right upper quadrant pain, especially in endemic areas. Both diseases had similar epidemiology and identical mode of transmission, i.e., the feco-oral route. We report a case of a young female with simultaneous infection of HAV and amoebic liver abscess, emphasizing the role of dual infection and its clinical manifestations. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2022-10 2022-10-31 /pmc/articles/PMC9810883/ /pubmed/36618234 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_149_22 Text en Copyright: © 2022 Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Puri, Saurabh
Randhawa, Gulshan Singh
Bhasin, Sukriti
Aggarwal, Rajat
Gera, Parkash
Simultaneous infection of amoebic liver abscess and hepatitis A infection in a young adult in an endemic region
title Simultaneous infection of amoebic liver abscess and hepatitis A infection in a young adult in an endemic region
title_full Simultaneous infection of amoebic liver abscess and hepatitis A infection in a young adult in an endemic region
title_fullStr Simultaneous infection of amoebic liver abscess and hepatitis A infection in a young adult in an endemic region
title_full_unstemmed Simultaneous infection of amoebic liver abscess and hepatitis A infection in a young adult in an endemic region
title_short Simultaneous infection of amoebic liver abscess and hepatitis A infection in a young adult in an endemic region
title_sort simultaneous infection of amoebic liver abscess and hepatitis a infection in a young adult in an endemic region
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9810883/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36618234
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_149_22
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