Forty Meals for a Drop of Blood …

El Hamad, Issa MD
Scarcella, Carmelo MD
Pezzoli, Maria Chiara MD, PhD
Bergamaschi, Viviana MD
Castelli, Francesco MD

^*Department of Infectious Diseases, Spedali Civili General Hospital, Brescia, Italy; ^†Local Health Unit, Center for International Health, Brescia, Italy; ^‡Institute for Infectious and Tropical Diseases, University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy

Corresponding Author: Francesco Castelli, MD, Institute for Infectious and Tropical Diseases, University of Brescia, Piazza Spedali Civili, 1, Brescia 25125, Italy. E-mail: [email protected]

Journal of Travel Medicine 16(1):p 64-65, January-February 2009.

Increasing migration flow to Western countries poses formidable challenges from the epidemiological, clinical, and cultural standpoints. A case of Dhat syndrome is presented in a young Pakistani male migrant living in Italy, which required integrated medical and cultural approach to be solved after a through diagnostic workout that did not yield any result.