Abstract

GAVIRIA GIRALDO, Claudia Marcela; VELASQUEZ, Carolina  and  RUIZ, Ana Cristina. Gnathostomiasis an increasingly common disease in Colombia. CES Med. [online]. 2017, vol.31, n.2, pp.199-206. ISSN 0120-8705.  https://doi.org/10.21615/cesmedicina.31.2.9.

The classic triad travel to Southeast Asia or to other endemic areas where raw or undercooked seafood, panniculitis and peripheral eosinophilia are consumed, should alert the physician to an entity known as gnathostomiasis, a parasitic infection caused by the third larva of the nematode Gnathostoma spp, usually seen in tropical and subtropical areas. It mainly affects the skin, and from there, you can migrate to deeper tissues, reaching compromise organs like lungs, eyes, ears, gastrointestinal and genitourinary tracts, and less frequent central nervous system. For a patient with three-day box consisting in high swelling, redness, warmth, itching and pain in the left pectoral region, with the subsequent formation of vesicle on the initial injury linear path and an erythematous indurated occurs on the teat left; after consumption of shrimp on the Colombian coast. With the epidemiological history, clinical and histological findings were diagnosed as gnathostomiasis, management began with albendazole presenting picture resolution.

Keywords : Gnathostomiasis; Eosinophilic panniculitis; Colombia.

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