Acute Muscular Sarcocystosis: An International Investigation Among Ill Travelers Returning From Tioman Island, Malaysia, 2011-2012

Esposito, Douglas H.
Stich, August
Epelboin, Loïc
Malvy, Denis
Han, Pauline V.
Bottieau, Emmanuel
da Silva, Alexandre
Zanger, Philipp
Slesak, Günther
van Genderen, Perry J. J.
Rosenthal, Benjamin M.
Cramer, Jakob P.
Visser, Leo G.
Muñoz, José
Drew, Clifton P.
Goldsmith, Cynthia S.
Steiner, Florian
Wagner, Noémie
Grobusch, Martin P.
Plier, D. Adam
Tappe, Dennis
Sotir, Mark J.
Brown, Clive
Brunette, Gary W.
Fayer, Ronald
von Sonnenburg, Frank
Neumayr, Andreas
Kozarsky, Phyllis E.
Van Den Enden, Erwin
Van Esbroeck, Marjan
Ghesquiere, Wayne
Nguyen, Duc
Receveur, Marie-Catherine
Peyron, François
Parola, Philippe
Savini, Hélène
Caumes, Eric
Perignon, Alice
Develoux, Michel
Rapp, Christophe
Keller, Christian A.
Haditsch, Martin
Güthoff, Wolfgang
Liebold, Ines
Schäfer, Johannes
Gobbi, Federico
Kortmann, Willemijn
van Twillert, Gitte
Goorhuis, Abraham
Harris, Vanessa
van Vugt, Michèle
Stijnis, Kees
Aronica, Eleonora
van Lieshout, Lisette
Roestenberg, Meta
van Wout, Jan
Barkham, Timothy
Lim, Poh Lian
Chian, Lee Kong
Hatz, Christoph
Brugger, Silvio D.
Furrer, Hansjakob
Chappuis, François
Michel, Yann
Choochumporn, Sanya
Narkwiboonwong, Than
Dryden, Matthew S.
Benedict, Theresa
Handali, Sukwan
Wilkins, Patricia P.
Shieh, Wun-Ju
Zaki, Sherif
Kogelman, Laura
Hatch, Steven
Van Den Enden, Erwin
Van Esbroeck, Marjan
Ghesquiere, Wayne
Nguyen, Duc
Receveur, Marie-Catherine
Peyron, François
Parola, Philippe
Savini, Hélène
Caumes, Eric
Perignon, Alice
Develoux, Michel
Rapp, Christophe
Keller, Christian A.
Haditsch, Martin
Güthoff, Wolfgang
Liebold, Ines
Schäfer, Johannes
Gobbi, Federico
Kortmann, Willemijn
van Twillert, Gitte
Goorhuis, Abraham
Harris, Vanessa
van Vugt, Michèle
Stijnis, Kees
Aronica, Eleonora
van Lieshout, Lisette
Roestenberg, Meta
van Wout, Jan
Barkham, Timothy
Lim, Poh Lian
Chian, Lee Kong
Hatz, Christoph
Brugger, Silvio D.
Furrer, Hansjakob
Chappuis, François
Michel, Yann
Choochumporn, Sanya
Narkwiboonwong, Than
Dryden, Matthew S.
Benedict, Theresa
Handali, Sukwan
Wilkins, Patricia P.
Shieh, Wun-Ju
Zaki, Sherif
Kogelman, Laura
Hatch, Steven

Publication date

August 2017

Abstract

A large outbreak of acute muscular sarcocystosis (AMS) among international tourists who visited Tioman Island, Malaysia, is described. Clinicians evaluating travelers returning ill from Malaysia with myalgia, with or without fever, should consider AMS in their differential diagnosi