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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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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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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 |