title: Testicular swelling due to lymphatic filariasis after brief travel to Haiti.
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).
authors.affiliation: Infectious Diseases, Hattiesburg Clinic, Hattiesburg, Mississippi; Urology Clinic, Wesley Medical Center, Hattiesburg, Mississippi; Division of Parasitic Diseases and Malaria, CDC, Atlanta, Georgia; Pathology Department, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland; Malaria, Global Health Program, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, Washington; Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland marcoslrz@yahoo.com.
authors.forename: Luis A
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Marcos
authors.affiliation: Infectious Diseases, Hattiesburg Clinic, Hattiesburg, Mississippi; Urology Clinic, Wesley Medical Center, Hattiesburg, Mississippi; Division of Parasitic Diseases and Malaria, CDC, Atlanta, Georgia; Pathology Department, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland; Malaria, Global Health Program, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, Washington; Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland.
authors.forename: Nathan P
authors.initials: NP
authors.lastname: Shapley
authors.affiliation: Infectious Diseases, Hattiesburg Clinic, Hattiesburg, Mississippi; Urology Clinic, Wesley Medical Center, Hattiesburg, Mississippi; Division of Parasitic Diseases and Malaria, CDC, Atlanta, Georgia; Pathology Department, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland; Malaria, Global Health Program, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, Washington; Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland.
authors.forename: Mark
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Eberhard
authors.affiliation: Infectious Diseases, Hattiesburg Clinic, Hattiesburg, Mississippi; Urology Clinic, Wesley Medical Center, Hattiesburg, Mississippi; Division of Parasitic Diseases and Malaria, CDC, Atlanta, Georgia; Pathology Department, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland; Malaria, Global Health Program, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, Washington; Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland.
authors.forename: Jonathan I
authors.initials: JI
authors.lastname: Epstein
authors.affiliation: Infectious Diseases, Hattiesburg Clinic, Hattiesburg, Mississippi; Urology Clinic, Wesley Medical Center, Hattiesburg, Mississippi; Division of Parasitic Diseases and Malaria, CDC, Atlanta, Georgia; Pathology Department, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland; Malaria, Global Health Program, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, Washington; Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland.
authors.forename: LeAnne M
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Fox
authors.affiliation: Infectious Diseases, Hattiesburg Clinic, Hattiesburg, Mississippi; Urology Clinic, Wesley Medical Center, Hattiesburg, Mississippi; Division of Parasitic Diseases and Malaria, CDC, Atlanta, Georgia; Pathology Department, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland; Malaria, Global Health Program, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, Washington; Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland.
authors.forename: Alan
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Magill
authors.affiliation: Infectious Diseases, Hattiesburg Clinic, Hattiesburg, Mississippi; Urology Clinic, Wesley Medical Center, Hattiesburg, Mississippi; Division of Parasitic Diseases and Malaria, CDC, Atlanta, Georgia; Pathology Department, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland; Malaria, Global Health Program, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, Washington; Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland.
authors.forename: Thomas B
authors.initials: TB
authors.lastname: Nutman
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000818:Animals; D004605:Elephantiasis, Filarial / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000469:parasitology* / Q000473:pathology; D006205:Haiti; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013737:Testis / Q000469:parasitology* / Q000473:pathology; D014195:Travel; D014958:Wuchereria bancrofti / Q000472:pathogenicity / Q000502:physiology*