Marcos Luis A, Shapley Nathan P, Eberhard Mark, Epstein Jonathan I, Fox LeAnne M, Magill Alan, Nutman Thomas B
Infectious Diseases, Hattiesburg Clinic, Hattiesburg, Mississippi; Urology Clinic, Wesley Medical Center, Hattiesburg, Mississippi; Division of Parasitic Diseases and Malaria, CDC, Atlanta, Georgia; Pathology Department, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland; Malaria, Global Health Program, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, Washington; Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
Infectious Diseases, Hattiesburg Clinic, Hattiesburg, Mississippi; Urology Clinic, Wesley Medical Center, Hattiesburg, Mississippi; Division of Parasitic Diseases and Malaria, CDC, Atlanta, Georgia; Pathology Department, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland; Malaria, Global Health Program, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, Washington; Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland.
Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2014 Jul;91(1):89-91. doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.14-0030. Epub 2014 May 27.
After 6 months of a trip to Haiti, a 25-year-old healthy man presented with a 6-week history of a very slow progressive intermittent bilateral testicular pain and swelling. The biopsies in both testicles revealed the presence of a dead filarial parasite. Polymerase chain reaction products of the DNA from the biopsy were shown to have a 100% identity to Wuchereria bancrofti. Despite being uncommon in travelers, this presentation of W. bancrofti highlights the possibility of acquiring W. bancrofti during short-term trips to highly endemic regions of the world (i.e., Haiti).