A 29 year old female patient exhibits heart palpitations and is admitted to the ER in a hospital in AZ. Being the brilli
Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2022 10:35 am
A 29 year old female patient exhibits heart palpitations and is admitted to the ER in a hospital in AZ. Being the brilliant disease detective that you are, you discover that the patient spent her childhood in poverty in the slums of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil where she received a small bug bite when she was a little girl. Upon discussion with her, she recalled that the bug bite swelled to the size of a quarter but then subsided a week later. You suspect that the heart palpitations may be a symptom of an underlying infectious disease obtained during childhood which disease will you be testing for? Chagas disease O Schistosomiasis Sleeping sickness O Typhus