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Trichinosis Imitating an Inflammatory Systematic Disease
We describe a case of a 47-year-old woman presented with a wide range of intermittent symptoms including prolonged fever, dry cough, diarrhea, rash, myalgias and arthralgias. The patient was attended by physicians with various medical specialties such as dermatologists, rheumatologists and allergiologists, but they did not establish a certain diagnosis because of the gradual onset of symptoms, raising the suspicion of a systematic disease. After extensive work up, the diagnosis of trichinosis was established with femoral muscle biopsy compatible with inflammatory myopathy of parasitic etiology with trichinosis to be the pr...
Source: Korean Journal of Parasitology - November 2, 2021 Category: Parasitology Authors: Maria Kosmidou Georgios Papamichail Eleftherios Klouras Konstantinos Tsamis Ioannis Sarmas Iro Rapti Haralampos Milionis Source Type: research
