Fatal Naegleria fowleri Meningoencephalitis, Italy

We report the first case of primary amebic meningoencephalitis in Italy, in a 9-year-old boy. Clinical course was fulminant, and diagnosis was made by identifying amebas in stained brain sections and by indirect immunofluorescence analysis. Naegleria fowleri was characterized as genotype I on the ba...

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Autores principales: Cogo, Paola E., Scaglia, Massimo, Gatti, Simonetta, Rossetti, Flavio, Alaggio, Rita, Laverda, Anna Maria, Zhou, Ling, Xiao, Lihua, Visvesvara, Govinda S.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2004
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Dispatch
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3323261/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15504272
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid1010.040273
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Sumario:We report the first case of primary amebic meningoencephalitis in Italy, in a 9-year-old boy. Clinical course was fulminant, and diagnosis was made by identifying amebas in stained brain sections and by indirect immunofluorescence analysis. Naegleria fowleri was characterized as genotype I on the basis of polymerase chain reaction test results.

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