Title
Case report: Testicular swelling due to lymphatic filariasis after brief travel to Haiti
Date Issued
01 January 2014
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Shapley N.P.
Eberhard M.
Epstein J.I.
Fox L.A.M.
Magill A.
Nutman T.B.
Hattiesburg Clinic
Publisher(s)
American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Abstract
After 6 months of a trip to Haiti, a 25-year-old healthy man presented with a 6-week history of a very slow progressive intermittent bilateral testicular pain and swelling. The biopsies in both testicles revealed the presence of a dead filarial parasite. Polymerase chain reaction products of the DNA from the biopsy were shown to have a 100% identity to Wuchereria bancrofti. Despite being uncommon in travelers, this presentation of W. bancrofti highlights the possibility of acquiring W. bancrofti during short-term trips to highly endemic regions of the world (i.e., Haiti). Copyright © 2014 by The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.
Start page
89
End page
91
Volume
91
Issue
1
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Enfermedades infecciosas
Medicina tropical
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84903893611
PubMed ID
Source
American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
ISSN of the container
00029637
Sponsor(s)
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases - ZIAAI000439 - NIAID
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