Emerging Infectious Diseases, September 1st, 2004
To the Editor: Moore et al. reported a case series of patients infected with imported gnathostomiasis who had typical intermittent, migratory skin manifestations or peripheral blood eosinophilia or both, as well as undiagnosed eosinophilia with nonspecific symptoms (1). We would like to add some comments based on a recent patient treated in Marseille, France.
In April 2003, a 66-year-old man living in Marseille indicated a history of fever for 8 days. He had returned from Vietnam 1 month earlier, where he had stayed for 4 weeks in the Ho Chi Minh City area and 2 days in the Mekong Delta are...
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