Clinical Cases in Tropical Medicine, 2nd Edition

1. A 20-Year-Old Woman from Sudan With Fever, Haemorrhage and Shock
2. A 7-Year-Old Girl from Peru With a Chronic Skin Ulcer
3. A 26-Year-Old Woman from Malawi with Headache, Confusion and Unilateral Ptosis
4. A 4-Year-Old Girl from Uganda in a Coma
5. A 4-Year-Old Boy from Laos With a Lesion of the Lip and Cheek
6. A 36-Year-Old Male Traveller Returning from Botswana With a Creeping Eruption
7. A 28-Year-Old Male Fisherman from Malawi With Shortness of Breath
8. A 26-Year-Old Female Traveller Returning from Ghana With a Boil on the Leg
9. A 52-Year-Old Man from Vietnam With Evolving Shock
10. A 55-Year-Old Indigenous Woman from Australia With a Widespread Exfoliating Rash and Sepsis
11. A 45-Year-Old Male Security Guard from Malawi With Difficulties in Walking and Back Pain
12. A 29-Year-Old Man from The Gambia With Genital Ulceration
13. A 16-Year-Old Girl from Malawi With Fever and Abdominal Pain
14. A 22-Year-Old Woman from Bangladesh With Profuse Watery Diarrhoea
15. A 3-Year-Old Boy from Laos With Right Suppurative Parotitis
16. A 25-Year-Old Female School Teacher from Malawi With Abrupt Onset of Fever and Confusion
17. A 34-Year-Old Man from Thailand With Fever and a Papular Rash
18. A 56-Year-Old Man Returning from a Trip to Thailand With Eosinophilia
19. A 40-Year-Old Man from Togo With Subcutaneous Nodules and Corneal Opacities
20. A 43-Year-Old Male Traveller Returning from Mozambique With Fever and Eosinophilia
21. A 35-Year-Old American Man With Fatigue and a Neck Lesion
22. 32-Year-Old Woman from Nigeria With Jaundice and Confusion
23. A 31-Year-Old HIV-Positive Business Traveller With Cough, Shortness of Breath and Night Sweats
24. A 14-Year-Old Boy from Rural Tanzania With Difficulty in Walking
25. A 72-Year-Old Male Farmer from Laos With Extensive Skin Lesions on the Lower Leg
26. A 14-Year-Old Boy from Malawi Who Has Been Bitten by a Snake
27. A 16-Year-Old Boy from Sri Lanka With Fever Jaundice and Renal Failure
28. A 67-Year-Old Female Expatriate Living in Cameroon With Eosinophilia and Pericarditis
29. A 35-Year-Old Woman from Malawi With Fever and Severe Anaemia
30. A 12-Year-Old Boy from Rural Kenya With Painful Eyes
31. A 6-Year-Old Boy from Malawi With Fever, Cough and Impaired Consciousness
32. A 44-Year-Old Male Farmer from Laos With Diabetes and a Back Abscess
33. A 53-Year-Old Man from Malawi With a Chronic Cough
34. A 35-Year-Old Male Farmer from Peru With a Chronic Ulcer and Multiple Nodular Lesions on the Arm
35. A 32-Year-Old Woman from Malawi With Headache and Blurred Vision
36. A 23-Year-Old Farmer from Myanmar With Unilateral Scrotal Swelling
37. A 29-Year-Old Woman from Malawi With Confusion, Diarrhoea and a Skin Rash
38. A 24-Year-Old Female Globetrotter With Strange Sensations in the Right Side of Her Body
39. A 30-Year-Old Male Chinese Trader With Fever in Laos
40. A 62-Year-Old Woman from Ethiopia With Difficulty Eating
41. A 7-Year-Old Girl from West Africa With Two Skin Ulcers and a Contracture of Her Right Wrist
42. A 41-Year-Old Male Traveller Returning from Australia With Itchy Eruptions on His Thighs
43. A 35-Year-Old Malawian Woman With a Painful Ocular Tumour
44. A 7-Year-Old Girl from South Sudan With Undulating Fever
45. A 2-Month-Old Girl from Laos With Dyspnoea, Cyanosis and Irritability
46. A 45-Year-Old Man from Sri Lanka With Fever and Right Hypochondrial Pain
47. A 32-Year-Old Man from Malawi With a Painfully Swollen Neck
48. A 31-Year-Old Woman from Tanzania With Acute Flaccid Paraplegia
49. A 33-Year-Old Male Traveller to India With Diarrhoea and Flatulence for Two Weeks
50. A 24-Year-Old Man of Turkish Origin With Jaundice and Cystic Liver Lesions
51. A 34-Year-Old HIV-Positive Woman from Malawi With Slowly Progressive Half-Sided Weakness
52. A 56-Year-Old Man from Peru With Prolonged Fever and Severe Anaemia
53. A 24-Year-Old Woman from Uganda With Fever and Shock
54. A 52-Year-Old Male Safari Tourist Returning from South Africa With Fever and a Skin Lesion
55. A 40-Year-Old Male Farmer from Peru With Chronic Cough and Weight Loss
56. A 21-Year-Old Pregnant Woman from The Gambia With a Rash
57. A 37-Year-Old Woman from Malawi With Haematemesis
58. A 25-Year-Old Woman from Egypt With Severe Chronic Diarrhoea and Malabsorption
59. A 24-Year-Old Man from Malawi With Skin Lesions and Breathlessness
60. A 6-Year-Old Boy from Malawi With Proptosis of the Left Eye
61. A 48-Year-Old Woman from Thailand With Fever and Disseminated Cutaneous Abscesses
62. A 28-Year-Old Man from Ghana With a Chronic Ulcer on His Ankle
63. A 38-Year-Old European Expatriate Living in Malawi With Difficulty Passing Urine
64. A 40-Year-Old Woman from Thailand and Her Brother-in-Law With Severe Headache
65. A 4-Year-Old Girl from Bolivia With a Dark Nodule on Her Toe
66. A 32-Year-Old Man from Malawi With Pain in the Right Upper Abdomen and a Feeling of Faintness
67. A 24-Year-Old Woman from the Peruvian Andes With Fever and Abdominal Pain
68. A 31-Year-Old Woman from Malawi With a Generalized Mucocutaneous Rash
69. A 22-Year-Old Male Farmer from Rural Ethiopia With Difficulty Walking
70. A 58-Year-Old Woman from Sri Lanka With Fever, Deafness and Confusion
71. A 71-Year-Old Man from Japan With Eosinophilia and a Nodular Lesion in the Lung
72. A 4-Year-Old Boy from Mozambique With Severe Oedema and Skin Lesions
73. A 21-Year-Old Male Migrant from Rural Mali With Massive Splenomegaly
74. A 28-Year-Old Woman from Sierra Leone With Fever and Conjunctivitis
75. A 25-Year-Old Woman from Zambia With a New-Onset Seizure
76. A 55-Year Old Woman from Turkey With Fever of Unknown Origin
77. A 51-Year-Old Female Traveller Returning from Central America With Conjunctivitis, Rash and Peripheral Oedema
78. A 42-Year-Old British Man Living in Malawi With Anaphylactic Shock
79. A 34-Year-Old Male Immigrant from Peru With Chronic Diarrhoea and Severe Weight Loss
80. A 62-Year-Old Man from Thailand With a Liver Mass
81. A 33-Year-Old Refugee from Afghanistan With Recurrent Fever and Back Pain
82. A 31-Year-Old Man from Guatemala With Acute Weakness and Numbness of the Leg
83. An 18-Year-Old Man from India With a Pale Patch on His Right Upper Limb
84. A 64-Year-Old Japanese Man With Generalized Tonic-Clonic Seizures
85. A 55-Year-Old Female Pig Farmer from Vietnam With Fever and Impaired Consciousness
86. A 14-Year-Old Girl in the Solomon Islands With a Non-Healing Leg Ulcer
87. A 27-Year-Old Male Traveller Returning from the Peruvian Amazon With Persisting Polyarthralgias
88. A 74-Year-Old Man from Japan With Fever, Nausea and Drowsiness
89. A 30-Year-Old Woman from Bolivia With Exertional Dyspnoea
90. A 55-Year-Old Couple Both Returning from Chile and Argentina With Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
91. A 20-Year-Old Male from India With Fever and Quadriparesis
92. A 42-Year-Old Traveller Returning from Thailand With Fever and Thrombocytopenia
93. A 35-Year-Old Male Logger from Peru With Fever, Jaundice and Bleeding
94. A 20-Year-Old Woman from the Democratic Republic of the Congo With Fever and a Vesiculopustular Skin Rash
95. A 42-Year-Old Male Refugee from the Democratic Republic of the Congo With Progressive Depression
96. A 19-Year-Old Boy from India With Drooping, Diplopia and Dysphagia
97. An 87-Year-Old Japanese Man With a Serpiginous Erythema on the Right Thigh
98. A 17-Year-Old Boy from South India With a Fever and a Reduced Level of Consciousness
99. A 43-Year-Old Male Traveller Returning from the Australian Outback with Fever, Joint Pains and a Rash
100. A 25-Year-Old Man from Ethiopia With a Nodular Rash
101. A 46-Year-Old Male Traveller with Chronic Cough After a Trip to South America
102. A 16-Year-Old Male Refugee from Somalia With High Fever and Slurred Speech
103. A 43-Year-Old Man from Peru With a Chronic Fistulating Foot Lesion

Camilla Rothe, MD, DTM&H, Head of Clinical Tropical Medicine, Institute of Infectious Diseases, LMU University Hospital Munich, Munich, Germany