Case report: Acute chagas disease in a returning traveler

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 87, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1038-1040

  Carter, Yvonne L ^a   Juliano, Jonathan J ^b   Montgomery, Susan P ^c   Qvarnstrom, Yvonne ^c  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; DOXYCYCLINE; EYE DROPS; LEVOFLOXACIN; NIFURTIMOX; TOBRAMYCIN; ANTITRYPANOSOMAL AGENT;

ACUTE CHAGAS DISEASE; ADULT; ALLERGIC REACTION; ANOREXIA; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BLEPHAROCONJUNCTIVITIS; CASE REPORT; CHAGAS DISEASE; CONJUNCTIVITIS; COSTA RICA; DECREASED APPETITE; DEPRESSION; DYSPNEA; ENERGY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ERYTHEMA; EYE SWELLING; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEADACHE; HEART ATRIUM ENLARGEMENT; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FILLING PRESSURE; HUMAN; HYPERTRANSAMINASEMIA; INSOMNIA; LEFT VENTRICULAR DIASTOLIC DYSFUNCTION; MEMORY DISORDER; PAIN; PERIORBITAL EDEMA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRURITUS; RASH; SIDE EFFECT; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRAVEL; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT RESPONSE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY;

CHAGAS DISEASE; COSTA RICA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NIFURTIMOX; TRAVEL; TRYPANOCIDAL AGENTS;

EID: 84871576067     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2012.12-0354     Document Type: Article

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