A returning traveller with fever, facial swelling, and skin lesions

BMJ. 2012 Mar 22:344:e2092. doi: 10.1136/bmj.e2092.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adrenal Cortex Hormones / therapeutic use
  • Animals
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Disease Progression
  • Face
  • Fever / parasitology
  • Humans
  • Lethargy / parasitology
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Pentamidine / administration & dosage
  • Pentamidine / therapeutic use
  • Skin / pathology
  • Suramin / administration & dosage
  • Suramin / therapeutic use
  • Travel Medicine*
  • Trypanocidal Agents / administration & dosage
  • Trypanocidal Agents / adverse effects
  • Trypanocidal Agents / therapeutic use*
  • Trypanosoma brucei gambiense / drug effects
  • Trypanosoma brucei gambiense / isolation & purification*
  • Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense / drug effects
  • Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense / isolation & purification*
  • Trypanosomiasis, African / diagnosis*
  • Trypanosomiasis, African / drug therapy
  • Trypanosomiasis, African / parasitology
  • Tsetse Flies / parasitology
  • Zambia

Substances

  • Adrenal Cortex Hormones
  • Trypanocidal Agents
  • Suramin
  • Pentamidine