East African sleeping sickness in Chennai.
A traveler to East Africa developed fever, an eschar on his forearm and thrombocytopenia shortly after returning home to Chennai, India. Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense infection was diagnosed on examination of his peripheral smear. He made a full recovery after receiving a course of suramin.
Gopalakrishnan
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Apollo Speciality Hospital, Chennai.
Easow
J M
JM
D000328:Adult; D000351:Africa, Eastern; D006801:Humans; D007194:India; D008297:Male; D014195:Travel; D014353:Trypanosomiasis, African / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000628:therapy*