Murray Henry W, Pati Rituparna
Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, USA.
IDCases. 2022 Mar 7;28:e01471. doi: 10.1016/j.idcr.2022.e01471. eCollection 2022.
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.
一名归国旅行者有三个特征提示存在罹患东非人类锥虫病的风险——地理暴露史(坦桑尼亚)、可能被采采蝇叮咬以及出现了类似锥虫性下疳的皮肤病变。然而,该旅行者就诊时并无症状,这就引发了临床上应如何处理的问题。