Tropical sprue after travel to Tanzania.
Tropical sprue (TS) is a diagnosis to consider in travelers with prolonged diarrhea and a malabsorption syndrome after return from tropical countries, particularly India and Southeast Asia. TS is an unusual condition in tropical Africa. Textbooks of tropical medicine indicate a low endemicity in Nigeria and a limited number of cases in South Africa and Zimbabwe. A Medline search from 1979 to mid 1998 using "Tanzania and tropical sprue" as key words disclosed no hits. We report herein a case of TS in a European traveler, who lived in Tanzania for 8 months.
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Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
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D000328:Adult; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D003967:Diarrhea / Q000209:etiology; D005060:Europe; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D013182:Sprue, Tropical / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D013636:Tanzania; D014195:Travel