Lymphedema in a 7-year-old boy infected with Wuchereria bancrofti in Sierra Leone A case report.pdf.pdf

Acta Tropica 134 (2014) 13–16

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Lymphedema in a 7-year-old boy infected with Wuchereria bancrofti


in Sierra Leone: A case report
a,1 b,c,∗,1 b c

Mackenzie Dome , Rashid Ansumana , Andrea L. Covington , Maria P. Rebollo ,
d e f c

Santigie Sesay , Kathryn H. Jacobsen , Dziedzom K. de Souza , Benjamin G. Koudou ,
g c

Edwin Michael , Moses J. Bockarie
a

Eck Institute for Global Health, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA
b

Mercy Hospital Research Laboratory, Bo, Sierra Leone
c

Centre for Neglected Tropical Diseases, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK
d




Ministry of Health and Sanitation, Freetown, Sierra Leone
e

Department of Global munity Health, e Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA
f

Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana
g

Department of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, USA

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Article history: We present a case of congenital lymphedema in a 7-year-old boy in Sierra Leone with active filarial

Received 23 October 2013

infection and penile edema. The genital edema with onset at 6 months of age may have been due to a

Received in revised form 2 February