<abstract xml:lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>During an outbreak of trichinellosis in Eastern Slovakia in 2008, 16 people were hospitalized, including 10 patients having specific anti-Trichinella antibodies. The disease relapse was seen in a 68-year-old woman two weeks after her discharge from hospital, where she was treated with albendazole and prednisone for 10 days. Clinical symptoms of trichinellosis, eosinophilia, elevated CRP and LDH levels were observed again with recorded elevation of aminotransferase levels during the relapse. Herein we discuss a potential cause of unusual relapse of trichinellosis with liver damage in a female patient with type II diabetes mellitus.</p></abstract>

During an outbreak of trichinellosis in Eastern Slovakia in 2008, 16 people were hospitalized, including 10 patients having specific anti-Trichinella antibodies. The disease relapse was seen in a 68-year-old woman two weeks after her discharge from hospital, where she was treated with albendazole and prednisone for 10 days. Clinical symptoms of trichinellosis, eosinophilia, elevated CRP and LDH levels were observed again with recorded elevation of aminotransferase levels during the relapse. Herein we discuss a potential cause of unusual relapse of trichinellosis with liver damage in a female patient with type II diabetes mellitus.

Unusual clinical course of trichinellosis with relapse

The Department of Infectology and Travel Medicine, Pavol Jozef Šafárik University, Faculty of Medicine and L. Pasteur University Hospital Košice, Rastislavova 43, Košice, Slovak Republic

Institute of Parasitology of the Slovak Academy of Science, Hlinkova 3, Košice, Slovak Republic

Helminthologia

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During an outbreak of trichinellosis in Eastern Slovakia in 2008, 16 people were hospitalized, including 10 patients having specific anti-Trichinella...

Unusual clinical course of trichinellosis with relapse

Published Online: Aug 31, 2013

Page range: 142 - 146

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/s11687-013-0123-5

Keywords
trichinellosis, outbreak, symptomatology, relapse

© 2013 Institute of Parasitology, SAS, Košice, Slovakia

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Unusual clinical course of trichinellosis with relapse

Published Online: Aug 31, 2013

Page range: 142 - 146

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/s11687-013-0123-5

Keywordstrichinellosis, outbreak, symptomatology, relapse

© 2013 Institute of Parasitology, SAS, Košice, Slovakia

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
trichinellosis, outbreak, symptomatology, relapse