Case Report: COVID-19 Misdiagnosed as a Drug Reaction to Miltefosine.

Am J Trop Med Hyg

3Fast-Track Drugs and Biologics LLC, North Potomac, Maryland.

Published: March 2021

We present case reports of two patients treated with miltefosine for mucocutaneous leishmaniasis whose gastrointestinal symptoms were initially diagnosed as a drug reaction and only later recognized as due to COVID-19. Gastrointestinal symptoms of COVID-19 are unusual, whereas gastrointestinal adverse drug reactions are very common. These reports exemplify that this infrequent presentation of COVID-19 is likely to be ascribed to a more common etiology such as a gastrointestinal drug reaction.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8103461PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.20-1510DOI Listing

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