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Unusual and Severe Complications of Acute Schistosomiasis in Travelers

Published:2022-08-25 Issue:9 Volume:9 Page:
ISSN:2328-8957
Container-title:Open Forum Infectious Diseases
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Author:

Biber Asaf¹²^ORCID,Petersil Neta³⁴,Naaman Efrat⁴⁵,Neuberger Ami³⁴,Schwartz Eli¹²

Affiliation:

1. The Center for Geographic Medicine and Tropical diseases, The Chaim Sheba Medical Center , Ramat Gan , Israel

2. Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University , Tel Aviv , Israel

3. Infectious Diseases Institute, Rambam Health Care Campus , Haifa , Israel

4. The Ruth and Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion—Israel Institute of Technology , Haifa , Israel

5. Department of Ophthalmology, Rambam Health Care Campus , Haifa , Israel

Abstract

Abstract 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.

Publisher

Oxford University Press (OUP)

Subject

Infectious Diseases,Oncology

Link

https://academic.oup.com/ofid/advance-article-pdf/doi/10.1093/ofid/ofac443/45536093/ofac443.pdf

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