African Sleeping Sickness in Tourists Returning from Tanzania: The First 2 Italian Cases from a Small Outbreak among European Travelers | Zendy

D Ripamonti | Zendy; Marco Massari | Zendy; Andrew Benedict F. Claudio | Zendy; G. Ermanno | Zendy; F Claudio | Zendy; Marisa Brini | Zendy; C. Capatti | Zendy; Fredy Suter | Zendy

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African Sleeping Sickness in Tourists Returning from Tanzania: The First 2 Italian Cases from a Small Outbreak among European Travelers

Author(s) -

D Ripamonti,

Marco Massari,

Andrew Benedict F. Claudio,

G. Ermanno,

F Claudio,

Marisa Brini,

C. Capatti,

Fredy Suter

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 - 10.1086/338157

Subject(s) - tanzania , outbreak , medicine , african trypanosomiasis , cluster (spacecraft) , environmental health , vaccination , pediatrics , family medicine , socioeconomics , trypanosomiasis , virology , sociology , computer science , programming language

A recent cluster of cases of African trypanosomiasis in humans (HAT) has been reported in tourists (most of whom were European) returning from Tanzania; we describe the first 2 patients (both of whom were Italian travelers) with HAT, who have been treated successfully. Because neither vaccine nor drug prophylaxis is currently recommended and/or available for persons traveling to areas of endemicity, physicians should be alerted about this uncommon but potentially life-threatening disease.

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