Acute muscular sarcocystosis: An international investigation among ill travelers returning from Tioman Island, Malaysia, 2011-2012

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 59, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 1401-1410

  Esposito, Douglas H ^a   Stich, August ^b   Epelboin, Loïc ^c,d   Malvy, Denis ^e   Han, Pauline V ^a   Bottieau, Emmanuel ^f   Da Silva, Alexandre ^g   Zanger, Philipp ^h   Slesak, Günther ⁱ   Van Genderen, Perry J J ^j   Rosenthal, Benjamin M ^k   Cramer, Jakob P ^l,m   Visser, Leo G ⁿ   Muñoz, José ^o   Drew, Clifton P ^a   Goldsmith, Cynthia S ^a   Steiner, Florian ^p   Wagner, Noémie ^q   Grobusch, Martin P ^r   Plier, D Adam ^s   Tappe, Dennis ^m   Sotir, Mark J ^a   Brown, Clive ^a   Brunette, Gary W ^a   Fayer, Ronald ^k   Von Sonnenburg, Frank ^t   Neumayr, Andreas ^u,v   Kozarsky, Phyllis E ^a,w   more..

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b Central Clinic Würzburg   (Germany)

^c PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

^d SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^e BORDEAUX UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^f INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

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

^h UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

ⁱ Tropenklin/Paul Lechler Krankenhaus   (Germany)

^j Harbour Hospital   (Netherlands)

^k AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^l UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^m BERNHARD NOCHT INSTITUTE FOR TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

ⁿ LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^o UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^p CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^q GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^r UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^s University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^t UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^u SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^v UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^w EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

Infectious disease outbreak; Malaysia; Parasitic disease; Sarcocystosis; Travel

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE; CREATINE KINASE; CREATINE KINASE MB; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; RNA 18S; STEROID; TAP WATER; TROPONIN;

ACUTE DISEASE; ACUTE MUSCULAR SARCOCYSTOSIS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; BELGIUM; BRADYZOITE; CANADA; CAT; CHILD; CREATINE KINASE BLOOD LEVEL; CROSS REACTION; CYST (RESTING STAGE); DEMOGRAPHY; EATING; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ENDOMYSIUM; EOSINOPHIL COUNT; EOSINOPHILIA; EUROPE; FASCICULATION; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FEVER; FRANCE; GERMANY; HAPLORHINI; HEADACHE; HISTOLOGY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; ITALY; LIZARD; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALAYSIA; MALE; MASSETER MUSCLE; MUSCLE BIOPSY; MUSCLE DISEASE; MUSCLE TENDERNESS; MYALGIA; MYOCARDITIS; MYOSITIS; NETHERLANDS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PERIMYSIUM; PHOTOGRAPHY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RASH; SARCOCYSTIS; SARCOCYSTIS NESBITTI; SARCOCYSTOSIS; SEROLOGY; SINGAPORE; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SNAKE; SPAIN; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; SUBCUTANEOUS NODULE; SUMMER; SWIMMING; SWITZERLAND; TOURISM; TOXOPLASMOSIS; TRANSVERSE SINUS; TRAVEL; TRICHINOSIS; BIOPSY; EOSINOPHIL; EPIDEMIC; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH SURVEY; ISLAND (GEOLOGICAL); ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RISK FACTOR; TRANSMISSION; ULTRASTRUCTURE; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BIOPSY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EOSINOPHILS; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; ISLANDS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALAYSIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLES; PUBLIC HEALTH SURVEILLANCE; RISK FACTORS; SARCOCYSTIS; SARCOCYSTOSIS; TRAVEL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84917722887     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciu622     Document Type: Article

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