Expect the Unexpected: A Case of Isolated Eosinophilic Meningitis in Toxocariasis

We present the case of a young police officer suffering from headache without other neurological symptoms caused by isolated eosinophilic meningitis, which resulted from an infection with Toxocara cati, along with a discussion of the differential diagnosis.

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Autores principales: Sick, Christian, Hennerici, Michael G.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: S. Karger AG 2014
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Published online: November, 2014
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4265852/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25535488
http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000369060
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spelling pubmed-42658522014-12-22 Expect the Unexpected: A Case of Isolated Eosinophilic Meningitis in Toxocariasis Sick, Christian Hennerici, Michael G. Case Rep Neurol Published online: November, 2014 We present the case of a young police officer suffering from headache without other neurological symptoms caused by isolated eosinophilic meningitis, which resulted from an infection with Toxocara cati, along with a discussion of the differential diagnosis. S. Karger AG 2014-11-12 /pmc/articles/PMC4265852/ /pubmed/25535488 http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000369060 Text en Copyright © 2014 by S. Karger AG, Basel http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an Open Access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC) (www.karger.com/OA-license), applicable to the online version of the article only. Users may download, print and share this work on the Internet for noncommercial purposes only, provided the original work is properly cited, and a link to the original work on http://www.karger.com and the terms of this license are included in any shared versions.
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Expect the Unexpected: A Case of Isolated Eosinophilic Meningitis in Toxocariasis
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title_full Expect the Unexpected: A Case of Isolated Eosinophilic Meningitis in Toxocariasis
title_fullStr Expect the Unexpected: A Case of Isolated Eosinophilic Meningitis in Toxocariasis
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title_short Expect the Unexpected: A Case of Isolated Eosinophilic Meningitis in Toxocariasis
title_sort expect the unexpected: a case of isolated eosinophilic meningitis in toxocariasis
topic Published online: November, 2014
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4265852/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000369060
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