Background: This presentation will describe a novel study started during a sabbatical year in Colombia. It will briefly cover logistics of taking a sabbatical year and then discuss the ongoing project and preliminary results. Dengue, a neglected tropical viral disease transmitted by the Aedes egypti mosquito, is endemic in Colombia and serves as an ideal [...]

Case Presentation: A 33-year-old man with recent travel to India presented with fevers, abdominal pain, and bloody stools. He was admitted two weeks prior to a hospital in India for fever and right upper quadrant pain where he was found to have elevated liver enzymes (ALT 569, AST 390, total bilirubin 9.9) in addition to [...]

Case Presentation: A 46-year-old female with a medical history of type 2 diabetes, asthma, obesity, and anxiety presented to the emergency department with a five-day history of fever, myalgias, and headache. Additionally, she experienced intermittent episodes of epistaxis and gingival bleeding while brushing her teeth for the past week. She had recently returned from a [...]

Case Presentation: A 65-year-old male with hypertension, hyperlipidemia, type 2 diabetes, and hypothyroidism was admitted to the hospital with fevers and chills in the setting of leukopenia and thrombocytopenia. Symptoms began on his way home from India four days prior and progressed to a Tmax of 102F with chest congestion. His physician ordered labwork that [...]

Case Presentation: A 22-year-old (G2P2) female with no significant past medical history presented to the emergency department with four-days of fevers, myalgias, retro-orbital headache, nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, and petechial rash involving the bilateral lower extremities. Her symptoms began after returning from a month-long trip to Northern Mexico, where she noted numerous mosquito bites and [...]

Case Presentation: A 43-year-old male with no past medical history presented to the emergency room (ER) with fever, headache and generalized body pains for 3 days. He recently returned to the USA 5 days ago after a three week trip to Northern India to visit his extended family. His vitals signs and physical exam was [...]