Orish Verner, Afutu Leslie, Ayodele Oladapo, Likaj Lorena, Marinkovic Aleksandra, Sanyaolu Adekunle
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, University of Health and Allied Sciences, Ho, Volta Region, Ghana.
School of Biomedical and Forensic Sciences, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Central Region, Ghana.
Open Forum Infect Dis. 2019 Jan 17;6(1):ofy169. doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofy169. eCollection 2019 Jan.
can cause severe infection and has the shortest incubation period compared with all the other species. Incubation periods of 9-14 days for the immune and 6-14 days for the nonimmune have been reported for . However, an incubation period of less than 5 days has not been reported, as of yet. This report presents a case of a 23-year-old nonimmune female who presented with signs and symptoms 4 days after being bitten by mosquitoes while visiting Ghana. The patient was successfully treated with a 1-day course of parenteral artesunate, followed by a 3-day course of oral artemisinin combination therapy.
可导致严重感染,与所有其他物种相比,其潜伏期最短。据报道,免疫者的潜伏期为9 - 14天,非免疫者为6 - 14天。然而,截至目前,尚未有潜伏期少于5天的报告。本报告介绍了一名23岁的非免疫女性病例,该患者在访问加纳时被蚊子叮咬4天后出现症状和体征。患者接受了为期1天的肠胃外青蒿琥酯治疗,随后接受了为期3天的口服青蒿素联合疗法,并成功治愈。