A Fatal Case of Naegleria fowleri Meningoencephalitis in Taiwan

After bathing at a hot spring resort, a 75-year-old man presented to the emergency department because of seizure-like attack with loss of conscious. This is the first case of primary amebic meningoencephalitis (PAM) caused by Naegleria fowleri in Taiwan. PAM was diagnosed based on detection of activ...

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Autores principales: Su, Mei-Yu, Lee, Ming-Shih, Shyu, Ling-Yuh, Lin, Wei-Chen, Hsiao, Pei-Ching, Wang, Chi-Ping, Ji, Dar-Der, Chen, Ke-Min, Lai, Shih-Chan
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Publicado: The Korean Society for Parasitology and Tropical Medicine 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3662064/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23710088
http://dx.doi.org/10.3347/kjp.2013.51.2.203
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author Su, Mei-Yu
Lee, Ming-Shih
Shyu, Ling-Yuh
Lin, Wei-Chen
Hsiao, Pei-Ching
Wang, Chi-Ping
Ji, Dar-Der
Chen, Ke-Min
Lai, Shih-Chan
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Shyu, Ling-Yuh
Lin, Wei-Chen
Hsiao, Pei-Ching
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Ji, Dar-Der
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description After bathing at a hot spring resort, a 75-year-old man presented to the emergency department because of seizure-like attack with loss of conscious. This is the first case of primary amebic meningoencephalitis (PAM) caused by Naegleria fowleri in Taiwan. PAM was diagnosed based on detection of actively motile trophozoites in cerebrospinal fluid using a wet-mount smear and the Liu's stain. The amoebae were further confirmed by PCR and gene sequencing. In spite of administering amphotericin B treatment, the patient died 25 days later.
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spelling pubmed-36620642013-05-24 A Fatal Case of Naegleria fowleri Meningoencephalitis in Taiwan Su, Mei-Yu Lee, Ming-Shih Shyu, Ling-Yuh Lin, Wei-Chen Hsiao, Pei-Ching Wang, Chi-Ping Ji, Dar-Der Chen, Ke-Min Lai, Shih-Chan Korean J Parasitol Case Report After bathing at a hot spring resort, a 75-year-old man presented to the emergency department because of seizure-like attack with loss of conscious. This is the first case of primary amebic meningoencephalitis (PAM) caused by Naegleria fowleri in Taiwan. PAM was diagnosed based on detection of actively motile trophozoites in cerebrospinal fluid using a wet-mount smear and the Liu's stain. The amoebae were further confirmed by PCR and gene sequencing. In spite of administering amphotericin B treatment, the patient died 25 days later. The Korean Society for Parasitology and Tropical Medicine 2013-04 2013-04-25 /pmc/articles/PMC3662064/ /pubmed/23710088 http://dx.doi.org/10.3347/kjp.2013.51.2.203 Text en © 2013, Korean Society for Parasitology and Tropical Medicine http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Case Report
Su, Mei-Yu
Lee, Ming-Shih
Shyu, Ling-Yuh
Lin, Wei-Chen
Hsiao, Pei-Ching
Wang, Chi-Ping
Ji, Dar-Der
Chen, Ke-Min
Lai, Shih-Chan
A Fatal Case of Naegleria fowleri Meningoencephalitis in Taiwan
title A Fatal Case of Naegleria fowleri Meningoencephalitis in Taiwan
title_full A Fatal Case of Naegleria fowleri Meningoencephalitis in Taiwan
title_fullStr A Fatal Case of Naegleria fowleri Meningoencephalitis in Taiwan
title_full_unstemmed A Fatal Case of Naegleria fowleri Meningoencephalitis in Taiwan
title_short A Fatal Case of Naegleria fowleri Meningoencephalitis in Taiwan
title_sort fatal case of naegleria fowleri meningoencephalitis in taiwan
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3662064/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23710088
http://dx.doi.org/10.3347/kjp.2013.51.2.203
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