Atypical challenging and first case report of babesiosis in Ecuador
| العنوان: | Atypical challenging and first case report of babesiosis in Ecuador |
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| المؤلفون: | Jeremy Patel, Tommy Kwak, Catherine A. Kallal, Moamen Al Zoubi, Mandavi Kulkarni |
| المصدر: | IDCases, Vol 4, Iss C, Pp 15-17 (2016) IDCases |
| بيانات النشر: | Elsevier, 2016. |
| سنة النشر: | 2016 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | 0301 basic medicine, Pathology, medicine.medical_specialty, Abdominal pain, 030231 tropical medicine, Case Report, Infectious and parasitic diseases, RC109-216, Gastroenterology, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Internal medicine, Babesiosis, parasitic diseases, medicine, Leukocytosis, biology, business.industry, medicine.disease, biology.organism_classification, 030104 developmental biology, Infectious Diseases, Splenic infarction, Babesia, Vomiting, medicine.symptom, business, Atovaquone, Malaria, medicine.drug |
| الوصف: | Babesia is known to be prevalent in the Eastern United States and other temperate countries but the prevalence of babesia is not well known in the tropical malaria-endemic countries because of the higher prevalence of malaria. A 72-year-old Hispanic male from Ecuador presenting with increasing left lower quadrant abdominal pain and distention for one year. He experienced nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, fever, chill, and myalgias. He reported 9 kg weight loss over the last two months. Patient moved to Chicago recently from Ecuador where he worked at a banana plantation and had frequent exposure to many insects and animals. Vital signs were normal but patient appeared chronically ill. Mild tenderness to palpation over the left side of the abdomen with marked splenomegaly, measuring 16 cm below the costal margin. Laboratory results with no leukocytosis hemoglobin 7.8 × 109/L; and platelet count, 55 × 109/L. Sodium was 128 mmol/L. Labs showed elevated LDH, ESR and ferritin values. The haptoglobin was low with a positive Combs test. CT abdomen showed moderate splenomegaly with large patchy, wedge-shaped hypodense area in posterior mid and upper spleen suggesting splenic infarction. Rapid malaria screening was negative, but a peripheral smear identified plasmodium species in more than 0.5% of red blood cells. Treatment with atovaquone and proguanil started. Two weeks later, molecular testing revealed Babesia DNA. This report details a case of babesiosis in a patient coming from a malaria-endemic region. The initial workup and blood work highly suggested a plasmodium infection. However the polymerase chain reaction confirmed the diagnosis of a Babesia microti. Learning objectives: We report the first case of human Babesiosis in previously healthy individual from Ecuador. |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 2214-2509 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::555448647ae70bddb6ba220522f07be4 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221425091630004X |
| حقوق: | OPEN |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsair.doi.dedup.....555448647ae70bddb6ba220522f07be4 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 22142509 |
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