A 53-year-old Caucasian female with no significant past

Last updated: 7/25/2022

A 53-year-old Caucasian female with no significant past medical history presented to a local emergency department in Phoenix with complaints of flu-like symptoms including decreased energy, fever, myalgia (muscle pain), and headaches. Her main complaint was about a painful but not itchy left eye swelling. She recently returned from a 3-week trip to Puerto Viejo, Costa Rica. The patient and her husband visited a small village, where they slept on a bed in a one-room adobe cottage that lacked netted windows and door. An analysis of the patient's blood showed a very motile single cell organism What disease did this patient have? What is the name of the microbe that caused it? Cutaneous candidiasis; Candida albicans Malaria; Plasmodium falciparum Acute Chagas Disease; Trypanosoma cruzi Chronic Chagas Disease; Trypanosoma cruz Tinea corporis; Dermatophytes 4