chancre/fever

This report describes a case of West African trypanosomiasis involving a Caucasian Frenchman living in Conackry, Guinea. The patient presented with fever and two skin chancres highly suggestive of very early lymphatic stage trypanosomiasis. Examination of peripheral blood smears confirmed diagnosis

BACKGROUND Human African trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness), an endemic disease, is currently reemerging in Africa with an estimated incidence of 45,000 new cases per year. It is caused by Trypanosoma brucei subspecies and transmitted by day-biting tsetse flies. METHODS We report a case of West

BACKGROUND Sleeping sickness (human African trypanosomiasis) is a parasitic infection transmitted by day-biting tsetse flies. The diagnostic standard is microscopy of blood, lymph node aspirates, or cerebrospinal fluid. The disease is invariably fatal if not treated. There are >300,000 new cases of

BACKGROUND Human African trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness) is a parasitic infection transmitted by day-biting tsetse flies. The diagnostic gold standard is microscopy of blood, lymph node aspirates or CSF. The disease is invariably fatal, if not treated. There are over 300 000 new cases of

OBJECTIVE To investigate the clinical manifestations of syphilitic uveoretinitis in patients co-infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). METHODS Uveoretinitis patients presenting between January 2008 and December 2014 at Eye and ENT Hospital of Fudan University were collected. Patients were

Syphilis is a sexually transmitted infection caused by the spirochaete Treponema pallidum. Syphilis re-emerged worldwide in the late 1990s, and hereafter increasing rates of syphilis were seen also in Denmark. Currently, around 700 cases are diagnosed yearly in Denmark, and syphilis is mainly

Brothers 9 and 14 years of age presented in London with fever and skin lesions after a safari in East Africa. Malaria films were negative, but trypanosomes were seen in blood films and chancre fluid. Sleeping sickness should be considered in children returning from East Africa.

A 27-year-old American man who had returned recently from East Africa presented with African sleeping sickness, probably of the Rhodesian (East African) type. High fever, malaise, and watery diarrhea were his predominant symptoms. No trypanosomal chancre was noted. Treatment for malaria in Africa

A Belgian traveller was diagnosed with human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) due to Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense nine days after visiting the Masai Mara area in Kenya. He presented with an inoculation chancre and was treated with suramin within four days of fever onset. Two weeks earlier, HAT was

A brother and sister (the latter having been resident in Ruanda for three years) fell ill with African trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness) after a two-day safari in the Akagera National Park. Cardinal symptoms were fever, lymphadenopathy and the typical primary lesion (trypanosomal chancre). The

Leukemia cutis is seen in around 20% of acute monocytic leukemia. They usually present as papules or nodules or infiltrated plaques but ulceration is uncommon. A 28-year-old female presented with multiple painless indurated genital ulcers of three weeks' duration with low-grade fever, gum

During a recent outbreak of Rhodesian sleeping sickness in the Lambwe Valley no asymptomatic Rhodesian sleeping sickness patients were found although 54% of the primary patients had mild symptoms and 9% were stuporous or comatose at presentation. The duration of symptoms was three months or less in

Mediterranean spotted fever is an infectious disease belonging to the rickettsial group due to an intracellular bacterium: Rickettsia Conorii. Pauci-symptomatic and benign forms are predominant. Severe forms are rare and increasingly reported in the recent literature with potentially