Hookworm with hypereosinophilia: atypical presentation of a typical disease

Sebastiaan O Verboeket; Guido E L van den Berk; Joop E Arends; Alje P van Dam; Jan Peringa; Rogier R Jansen

doi:10.1111/jtm.12042

Hookworm with hypereosinophilia: atypical presentation of a typical disease

J Travel Med. 2013 Jul-Aug;20(4):265-7. doi: 10.1111/jtm.12042. Epub 2013 May 27.

Authors

Sebastiaan O Verboeket¹, Guido E L van den Berk, Joop E Arends, Alje P van Dam, Jan Peringa, Rogier R Jansen

Affiliation

¹ Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

PMID: 23809080
DOI: 10.1111/jtm.12042

Abstract

We describe a 55-year-old man returning from the Philippines infected with a hookworm, the novel bacterium Laribacter hongkongensis, and a Blastocystis hominis and presenting with both gastrointestinal and neurological symptoms. The high eosinophilia caused by the hookworm infection resulted in both gastrointestinal and neurological symptoms, resembling a hypereosinophilic syndrome.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Ancylostomatoidea / isolation & purification*
Animals
Diagnosis, Differential
Hookworm Infections / complications
Hookworm Infections / ethnology
Hookworm Infections / parasitology*
Humans
Hypereosinophilic Syndrome / diagnosis
Hypereosinophilic Syndrome / etiology*
Male
Middle Aged
Netherlands / epidemiology
Philippines / ethnology
Tomography, X-Ray Computed
Travel*