[Mansonella perstans filariasis after stay in Cameroon. A 19-year-old patient born in Cameroon, in Switzerland for the last 10 years].
After a spending three weeks in Cameroon, a 19-year-old woman presented in the emergency room with sudden lancinating pain in the lower abdomen, predominantly on the right side. A blood smear tested for presumed malaria showed subperiodic microfilariae of the species Mansonella perstans. The patient was treated with mebendazole (Vermox).
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Schweizerisches Tropeninstitut Basel.
Battegay
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Gyr
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Hatz
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D000328:Adult; D000818:Animals; D000969:Antinematodal Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D002163:Cameroon; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008366:Mansonella / Q000254:growth & development / Q000502:physiology; D008368:Mansonelliasis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy; D008463:Mebendazole / Q000627:therapeutic use; D008842:Microfilariae; D014195:Travel
D000969:Antinematodal Agents; D008463:Mebendazole