[Mansonella perstans filariasis after stay in Cameroon. A 19-year-old patient born in Cameroon, in Switzerland for the last 10 years]

G Kiefer; M Battegay; N Gyr; C Hatz

doi:10.1024/0369-8394.91.3.61

[Mansonella perstans filariasis after stay in Cameroon. A 19-year-old patient born in Cameroon, in Switzerland for the last 10 years]

Praxis (Bern 1994). 2002 Jan 16;91(3):61-6. doi: 10.1024/0369-8394.91.3.61.

[Article in German]

Authors

G Kiefer¹, M Battegay, N Gyr, C Hatz

Affiliation

¹ Schweizerisches Tropeninstitut Basel.

PMID: 11845614
DOI: 10.1024/0369-8394.91.3.61

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).

Publication types

Case Reports
Comparative Study

MeSH terms

Adult
Animals
Antinematodal Agents / therapeutic use
Cameroon
Diagnosis, Differential
Female
Humans
Mansonella* / growth & development
Mansonella* / physiology
Mansonelliasis* / diagnosis
Mansonelliasis* / drug therapy
Mebendazole / therapeutic use
Microfilariae
Travel

Substances

Antinematodal Agents
Mebendazole