Loiasis in sub-Saharan migrants living in Spain with emphasis of cases from Equatorial Guinea.
Sabino PuenteGerman Ramírez-OlivenciaMar LagoMercedes SubiratsFrancisco BruEugenio Pérez-BlazquezMarta ArsuagaConcepción Ladron de GuevaraFernando de la Calle-PrietoBelén VicenteMontserrat Alonso-SardónMoncef Belhassen-GarcíaAntonio MuroPublished in: Infectious diseases of poverty (2020)
Our patients presented early clinical manifestations and few atypical features. Thus, physicians should systematically consider loiasis in migrants with a typical presentation. However, considering that 72.5% of the patients had only positive microfilaremia without any symptoms, we suggest searching for microfilaremia in every migrant from endemic countries for loiasis presenting with eosinophilia.