PMID: 11605314Oct 19, 2001Paper

Stomach ache and fever after consumption of watercress in Turkey: fascioliasis

Nederlands tijdschrift voor geneeskunde
P L van DaeleM A van Agtmael

Abstract

A 52-year-old woman presented several months after returning from a visit to Turkey with stomach-ache and fever. Laboratory results showed leucocytosis with marked eosinophilia. Furthermore, serum liver enzyme activities were slightly elevated. A CT scan of the abdomen showed several spots which, on a later scan, had migrated. Serologic tests confirmed the clinical diagnosis of fascioliasis. The patient was successfully treated with triclabendazole. Infection presumably occurred after eating watercress which the patient had bought on a market in Turkey.

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