Unusual case of Giardia lamblia causing eosinophilic ascites along with Plesiomonas shigelloides gastroenteritis

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Unusual case of Giardia lamblia causing eosinophilic ascites along with Plesiomonas shigelloides gastroenteritis

Mamatha Ballal¹, Vignesh Shetty¹, Manali Agarwal², Bhavna Nayal³, Shashikiran Umakanth⁴

¹Enteric Diseases Division, 2Department of Microbiology, 3Department of Pathology, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal 576 104 Karnataka, India
⁴Department of Medicine, Dr TMA Pai Hospital, Melaka Manipal Medical College, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Udupi 576101, Karnataka, India

Corresponding author: Mamatha Ballal. [email protected]

Year: 2021, Page: 321-323, Doi: https://doi.org/10.51248/.v41i2.806

Abstract

A case report of a healthy, immunocompetent male, an international traveller from Germany who had visited India for a short trip, presented at our OPD with a history of loose stools, fever and abdominal pain, for two months. After thorough investigations, he was diagnosed to have an infection with Giardia lamblia acute gastroenteritis (AGE) along with eosinophilic ascites with peripheral eosinophilia, with associated Plesiomonas shigelloides diarrhoea. He was then treated with metronidazole and cotrimoxazole, which resulted in complete resolution of the symptoms.

Keywords: Giardia lamblia; Plesiomonas shigelloides; eosinophilic ascites; gastroenteritis.

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Mamatha Ballal, Vignesh Shetty, Manali Agarwal, Bhavna Nayal, Shashikiran Umakanth. Unusual case of Giardia lamblia causing eosinophilic ascites along with Plesiomonas shigelloides gastroenteritis. Biomedicine: 2021; 41(2): 321-323

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