title: [Mansonella perstans filariasis after stay in Cameroon. A 19-year-old patient born in Cameroon, in Switzerland for the last 10 years].
abstract: 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).
authors.affiliation: Schweizerisches Tropeninstitut Basel.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Kiefer
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Battegay
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Gyr
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Hatz
mesh_terms: 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
chemical_list: D000969:Antinematodal Agents; D008463:Mebendazole