TY - JOUR
T1 - The returned traveler with neurologic manifestations
T2 - could my patient have a parasite?
AU - Coyle, Christina M.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2021 Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. All rights reserved.
PY - 2021/6/1
Y1 - 2021/6/1
N2 - PURPOSE OF REVIEW: The present review focuses on parasitic infections of the central nervous system (CNS) that can affect the international traveler. RECENT FINDINGS: The epidemiology of imported parasitic infections is changing and clinicians are treating increasing numbers of returned travelers with parasitic infections in the CNS with which they are not familiar. SUMMARY: The epidemiology, life cycle, clinical manifestations, diagnosis, and treatment of parasites that affect the CNS will be discussed.
AB - PURPOSE OF REVIEW: The present review focuses on parasitic infections of the central nervous system (CNS) that can affect the international traveler. RECENT FINDINGS: The epidemiology of imported parasitic infections is changing and clinicians are treating increasing numbers of returned travelers with parasitic infections in the CNS with which they are not familiar. SUMMARY: The epidemiology, life cycle, clinical manifestations, diagnosis, and treatment of parasites that affect the CNS will be discussed.
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U2 - 10.1097/QCO.0000000000000732
DO - 10.1097/QCO.0000000000000732
M3 - Review article
C2 - 33769967
AN - SCOPUS:85105765555
VL - 34
SP - 245
EP - 254
JO - Current Opinion in Infectious Diseases
JF - Current Opinion in Infectious Diseases
SN - 0951-7375
IS - 3
ER -