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Sarcocystis nesbitti causes acute, relapsing febrile myositis with a high attack rate: description of a large outbreak of muscular sarcocystosis in Pangkor Island, Malaysia, 2012

Italiano CM 1 , Wong KT 2 , AbuBakar S 3 , Lau YL 4 , Ramli N 5 , Syed Omar SF 1 Show all authors , Kahar Bador M 6 , Tan CT 1

Affiliations 

  • 1 Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  • 2 Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  • 3 TIDREC, Department of Medical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  • 4 Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  • 5 Department of Medical Imaging, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  • 6 Department of Medical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
PLoS Negl Trop Dis, 2014 May;8(5):e2876.
PMID: 24854350 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0002876

Abstract

From the 17th to 19th January 2012, a group of 92 college students and teachers attended a retreat in a hotel located on Pangkor Island, off the west coast of Peninsular Malaysia. Following the onset of symptoms in many participants who presented to our institute, an investigation was undertaken which ultimately identified Sarcocystis nesbitti as the cause of this outbreak.

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