Fly bites and skin lesion in an asymptomatic traveler returned from Tanzania: Next steps? uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • A returned traveler had three features suggesting a risk for developing East African human trypanosomiasis - geographical exposure (Tanzania), likely tsetse fly bites and a trypanosomal chancre-like skin lesion. However, the traveler was asymptomatic at the time of presentation, raising the issue of how to proceed clinically.

publication date

  • March 7, 2022

Identity

PubMed Central ID

  • PMC8924306

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 85118246611

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1093/ofid/ofab377

PubMed ID

  • 35308778

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 28