Case reports: acute hookworm infection: an unusual cause of profuse watery diarrhoea in returned travellers.

Authors :: Lawn SD
Grant AD
Wright SG
Source :: Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene [Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg] 2003 Jul-Aug; Vol. 97 (4), pp. 414-5.
Publication Year :: 2003
Abstract: We describe 3 returned travellers who developed profuse watery diarrhoea associated with marked blood eosinophilia. Delayed appearance of ova in stool samples caused difficulty in establishing diagnoses of acute hookworm infection. Low activity of ivermectin against hookworm resulted in failure of empiric treatment with this agent prior to parasitological diagnosis.

Subjects :: Acute Disease
Adult
Antinematodal Agents therapeutic use
Female
Hookworm Infections complications
Hookworm Infections drug therapy
Humans
Ivermectin therapeutic use
Male
Middle Aged
Treatment Failure
Diarrhea parasitology
Hookworm Infections diagnosis
Travel

Language :: English
ISSN :: 0035-9203
Volume :: 97
Issue :: 4
Database :: MEDLINE
Journal :: Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Publication Type :: Academic Journal
Accession number :: 15259470
Full Text :: https://doi.org/10.1016/s0035-9203(03)90073-3

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