Acute Muscular Sarcocystosis: An International Investigation Among Ill Travelers Returning From Tioman Island, Malaysia, 2011-2012
Author(s) -
D. H. Esposito,
A. Stich,
Loïc Epelboin,
Denis Malvy,
Pauline Han,
Emmanuel Bottieau,
Alexandre J. da Silva,
Philipp Zanger,
Günther Slesak,
Perry J.J. van Genderen,
Benjamin M. Rosenthal,
Jakob P. Cramer,
Leo G. Visser,
José Muñóz,
C. P. Drew,
Cynthia S. Goldsmith,
Florian Steiner,
N. L. Wagner,
Martin P. Grobusch,
D. A. Plier,
Dennis Tappe,
Mark J. Sotir,
Clive Brown,
Gary W. Brunette,
Ronald Fayer,
Frank von Sonnenburg,
Andreas Neumayr,
Phyllis E. Kozarsky,
E Van den Enden,
Marjan Van Esbroeck,
W. Ghesquiere,
Duc Nguyen,
M.-C. Receveur,
Florence Peyron,
Philippe Parola,
Hélène Savini,
Eric Caumes,
A. Périg,
M. Develoux,
C. Rapp,
Cesar A. Keller,
M. Haditsch,
W Güthoff,
I. Liebold,
Jacob Schäfer,
Federico Gobbi,
W. Kortmann,
G. van Twillert,
Abraham Goorhuis,
Vanessa Harris,
M. van Vugt,
Kees Stijnis,
Eleonora Aronica,
Lisette van Lieshout,
Meta Roestenberg,
J. van Wout,
Timothy Barkham,
P.L. Lim,
L. K. Chian,
Christoph Hatz,
Silvio D. Brugger,
H. Furrer,
F. Chappuis,
Yanne Michel,
S. Choochumporn,
T. Narkwiboonwong,
Matthew Dryden,
Theresa Benedict,
Sukwan Handali,
Patricia P. Wilkins,
WunJu Shieh,
S R Zaki,
L. Kogelman,
Stephani L. Hatch
Publication year - 2014
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 - 10.1093/cid/ciu622
Subject(s) - myalgia , sarcocystosis , medicine , eosinophilia , outbreak , myositis , sarcocystis , muscle biopsy , pathology , biopsy , parasite hosting , world wide web , computer science
Through 2 international traveler-focused surveillance networks (GeoSentinel and TropNet), we identified and investigated a large outbreak of acute muscular sarcocystosis (AMS), a rarely reported zoonosis caused by a protozoan parasite of the genus Sarcocystis, associated with travel to Tioman Island, Malaysia, during 2011-2012.
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