Initial patient cluster and first positive biopsy findings in an outbreak of acute muscular sarcocystis-like infection in travelers returning from Tioman Island, Peninsular Malaysia, in 2011

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 725-726

  Tappe, Dennis ^a,b   Ernestus, Karen ^a   Rauthe, Stephan ^a   Schoen, Christoph ^a   Frosch, Matthias ^a   Müller, Andreas ^b   Stich, August ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b Medical Mission Hospital   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE; CREATINE KINASE; PREDNISONE;

ACUTE MUSCULAR SARCOCYSTIS LIKE INFECTION; ADULT; ARTHRALGIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COUGHING; DIARRHEA; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EOSINOPHILIA; EPIDEMIC; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FEVER; GERMANY; HEADACHE; HEART PALPITATION; HEART RIGHT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEART VENTRICLE EXTRASYSTOLE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LETTER; MALAYSIA; MALE; MUSCLE BIOPSY; MYALGIA; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SARCOCYSTIS; SARCOCYSTOSIS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TACHYCARDIA; TRAVEL; URTICARIA;

ADULT; BIOPSY; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; MALAYSIA; MALE; MUSCLES; SARCOCYSTIS; SARCOCYSTOSIS; TRAVEL;

EID: 84873054075     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.03063-12     Document Type: Letter

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