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.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2004
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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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author Cogo, Paola E.
Scaglia, Massimo
Gatti, Simonetta
Rossetti, Flavio
Alaggio, Rita
Laverda, Anna Maria
Zhou, Ling
Xiao, Lihua
Visvesvara, Govinda S.
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Scaglia, Massimo
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description 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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spelling pubmed-33232612012-04-17 Fatal Naegleria fowleri Meningoencephalitis, Italy Cogo, Paola E. Scaglia, Massimo Gatti, Simonetta Rossetti, Flavio Alaggio, Rita Laverda, Anna Maria Zhou, Ling Xiao, Lihua Visvesvara, Govinda S. Emerg Infect Dis Dispatch 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. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2004-10 /pmc/articles/PMC3323261/ /pubmed/15504272 http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid1010.040273 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is a publication of the U.S. Government. This publication is in the public domain and is therefore without copyright. All text from this work may be reprinted freely. Use of these materials should be properly cited.
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Visvesvara, Govinda S.
Fatal Naegleria fowleri Meningoencephalitis, Italy
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