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Tropical Sprue after Travel to Tanzania

Author(s) -

Willy Peetermans,

An Vonck

Publication year - 2006

Publication title -

journal of travel medicine

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.985

H-Index - 59

eISSN - 1708-8305

pISSN - 1195-1982

DOI - 10.2310/7060.2000.00009

Subject(s) - tropical sprue , tanzania , medicine , malabsorption , diarrhea , tropical medicine , tropics , southeast asia , traveler's diarrhea , socioeconomics , sprue , pathology , ethnology , fishery , history , mold , genetics , sociology , biology

Tropical sprue (TS) is a diagnosis to consider in travelers with prolonged diarrhea and a malabsorption syndrome after return from tropical countries, particularly India and Southeast Asia. TS is an unusual condition in tropical Africa. Textbooks of tropical medicine indicate a low endemicity in Nigeria and a limited number of cases in South Africa and Zimbabwe. A Medline search from 1979 to mid 1998 using "Tanzania and tropical sprue" as key words disclosed no hits. We report herein a case of TS in a European traveler, who lived in Tanzania for 8 months.

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