ArticleThe American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene2024
Recurring Transient Tooth Pain as Newly Described Symptom of Migratory Loiasis: A Mixed-Methods Study in Rural Gabon.
Article in The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Abstract
Loiasis, a filarial pathogen exclusively endemic in central and western Africa, causes a wide spectrum of symptoms. Understanding the breadth of its clinical manifestations is of importance for adequate patient care and to understand its disease burden. Recurring transient pain in the oral cavity was reported as a self-perceived symptom of loiasis in in-depth interviews of patients in a high transmission region in Gabon. Pain was described as stabbing in character and transient for a few days in its temporal course. A quantitative epidemiological survey indicated that transient tooth pain was experienced by 22% of patients infected with Loa loa. Among those individuals, it was exclusively reported by patients suffering from migratory loiasis (24%). Similar findings have been previously described for other filarial pathogens, indicating that transient swellings of the periodontium and the soft tissue of the oral cavity may explain this symptom reported by patients with migratory loiasis.
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