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Volume 30, Number 7—July 2024
Dispatch

Wuchereria bancrofti Lymphatic Filariasis, Barrancabermeja, Colombia, 2023

José A. Suárez, Jose A. Vargas-Soler, Laura Isabel Manosalva-Arciniegas, Stephanie Becerra-González, Angie L. Ramirez, Tatiana Cáceres, Nicolas Luna, Juan David Ramírez, and Alberto Paniz-Mondolfi
Author affiliations: Universidad Internacional Sek Quito, Quito, Ecuador (J.A. Suárez); Sistema Nacional de Investigación, Senacyt, Panama (J.A. Suárez); Universidad de Panamá, Panama City, Panama (J.A. Suárez); Universidad Industrial de Santander, Bucaramanga, Colombia (J.A. Vargas-Soler); Fundación Cardiovascular de Colombia, Bucaramanga (J.A. Vargas-Soler, L.I. Manosalva-Arciniegas, S. Becerra-González); Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá, Colombia (A.L. Ramirez, T. Cáceres, N. Luna, J.D. Ramirez); Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA (J.D. Ramirez, A. Paniz-Mondolfi).

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Figure 1

Images of a 14-year-old patient from Colombia experiencing severe progressive lymphedema caused by a Wuchereria bancrofti nematode infection. A) Patient’s left lower limb, showing generalized lymphedema extending from the foot to the genital region along with erythematous areas involving the left thigh and areas of perimaleolar hypocromia and hypercromia reflective of post-inflammatory trophic skin changes. B) Severe scrotal edema (hydrocele).

Figure 1. Images of a 14-year-old patient from Colombia experiencing severe progressive lymphedema caused by a Wuchereria bancrofti nematode infection. A) Patient’s left lower limb, showing generalized lymphedema extending from the foot to the genital region along with erythematous areas involving the left thigh and areas of perimaleolar hypocromia and hypercromia reflective of post-inflammatory trophic skin changes. B) Severe scrotal edema (hydrocele).

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