Chronic urticaria revealing amebiasis

A 49-year-old Ethiopian woman was admitted to our Dermatology Unit in March 2014 with a diagnosis of chronic urticaria. The patient lived in Milan, Italy, but she visited Ethiopia in July 2013. The patient stated that she was in therapy with levothyroxine for hypothyroidism and that urticaria appeared in November 2013. Furthermore, the patient declared occasional abdominal pain and diarrhoea, and weight loss (approximately 6 kg) in the last six months. Laboratory examinations, carried out at other centers, revealed blood eosinophilia [November 2013: 730 eosinophils/mm3 (=10.5%); January 2014: 1.100 eosinophils/mm3 (=15.9%)].
Source: Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease - Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Source Type: research