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

• Main Authors: Italiano, C.M., Wong, Kum Thong, AbuBakar, Sazaly, Lau, Y.L., Ramli, Norlisah, Omar, S.F.S., Bador, M.K., Tan, C.T.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library of Science 2014
• Subjects: R Medicine
• Online Access: http://eprints.um.edu.my/11213/1/Italiano-2014-Sarcocystis_nesbitti.pdf; http://eprints.um.edu.my/11213/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4031117/

Background: 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 un...