Acute Chagas Disease Manifesting as Orbital Cellulitis, Texas, USA
| Autor: | Natalie Homer, Aliza Epstein, F Parker Hudson, Kristin Mondy |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Microbiology (medical)
Chagas disease Epidemiology medicine.drug_class Trypanosoma cruzi vector-borne infections Antibiotics Infectious and parasitic diseases RC109-216 parasites orbital cellulitis medicine Animals Humans Chagas Disease Acute Chagas Disease Manifesting as Orbital Cellulitis Texas USA biology business.industry Dispatch medicine.disease biology.organism_classification Texas Virology Insect Vectors Infectious Diseases triatomine Medicine next-generation sequencing Orbital cellulitis acute Chagas disease business Acute Chagas' disease |
| Zdroj: | Emerging Infectious Diseases, Vol 27, Iss 11, Pp 2937-2939 (2021) Emerging Infectious Diseases |
| ISSN: | 1080-6059 1080-6040 |
| DOI: | 10.3201/eid2711.203698 |
| Popis: | We report a case of acute, vectorborne Chagas disease, acquired locally in central Texas, USA, manifesting as Romaña’s sign, which was initially mistaken for orbital cellulitis. After the infection failed to respond to antibiotics, DNA-based next generation sequencing on plasma yielded high levels of Trypanasoma cruzi; results were confirmed by PCR. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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