Diagnostic Significance of Blood Eosinophilia in Returning Travelers | Zendy

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Diagnostic Significance of Blood Eosinophilia in Returning Travelers

Author(s) -

Corinna Schulte,

Bjarne Krebs,

Tomáš Jelı́nek,

H. D. Nothdurft,

Frank von Sonnenburg,

T. Löscher

Publication year - 2002

Publication title -

clinical infectious diseases

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.44

H-Index - 336

eISSN - 1537-6591

pISSN - 1058-4838

DOI - 10.1086/338026

Subject(s) - eosinophilia , medicine , predictive value , white blood cell , immunology , helminthiasis

This study was conducted to investigate the predictive value of blood eosinophilia (total white blood cell count with > or =8% eosinophils) for the diagnosis of travel-related infections in 14,298 patients who returned from developing countries. The data show that blood eosinophilia in travelers returning from developing countries has only limited predictive value for the presence of travel-related infections. However, the likelihood of the presence of helminth infections increases considerably with the extent of eosinophilia.

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