Autochthonous Case of Eosinophilic Meningitis Caused by Angiostrongylus cantonensis, France, 2016

We report a case of a 54-year-old Moroccan woman living in France diagnosed with eosinophilic meningitis caused by Angiostrongylus cantonensis. Diagnosis was based on clinical symptoms and confirmed by testing of serum and cerebrospinal fluid samples. Physicians should consider the risk for A. canto...

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Autores principales: Nguyen, Yann, Rossi, Benjamin, Argy, Nicolas, Baker, Catherine, Nickel, Beatrice, Marti, Hanspeter, Zarrouk, Virginie, Houzé, Sandrine, Fantin, Bruno, Lefort, Agnès
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2017
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Research Letter
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5443449/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28518042
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2306.161999
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author Nguyen, Yann
Rossi, Benjamin
Argy, Nicolas
Baker, Catherine
Nickel, Beatrice
Marti, Hanspeter
Zarrouk, Virginie
Houzé, Sandrine
Fantin, Bruno
Lefort, Agnès
author_facet Nguyen, Yann
Rossi, Benjamin
Argy, Nicolas
Baker, Catherine
Nickel, Beatrice
Marti, Hanspeter
Zarrouk, Virginie
Houzé, Sandrine
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Lefort, Agnès
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description We report a case of a 54-year-old Moroccan woman living in France diagnosed with eosinophilic meningitis caused by Angiostrongylus cantonensis. Diagnosis was based on clinical symptoms and confirmed by testing of serum and cerebrospinal fluid samples. Physicians should consider the risk for A. cantonensis infection outside of endemic areas.
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spelling pubmed-54434492017-06-02 Autochthonous Case of Eosinophilic Meningitis Caused by Angiostrongylus cantonensis, France, 2016 Nguyen, Yann Rossi, Benjamin Argy, Nicolas Baker, Catherine Nickel, Beatrice Marti, Hanspeter Zarrouk, Virginie Houzé, Sandrine Fantin, Bruno Lefort, Agnès Emerg Infect Dis Research Letter We report a case of a 54-year-old Moroccan woman living in France diagnosed with eosinophilic meningitis caused by Angiostrongylus cantonensis. Diagnosis was based on clinical symptoms and confirmed by testing of serum and cerebrospinal fluid samples. Physicians should consider the risk for A. cantonensis infection outside of endemic areas. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2017-06 /pmc/articles/PMC5443449/ /pubmed/28518042 http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2306.161999 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.
spellingShingle Research Letter
Nguyen, Yann
Rossi, Benjamin
Argy, Nicolas
Baker, Catherine
Nickel, Beatrice
Marti, Hanspeter
Zarrouk, Virginie
Houzé, Sandrine
Fantin, Bruno
Lefort, Agnès
Autochthonous Case of Eosinophilic Meningitis Caused by Angiostrongylus cantonensis, France, 2016
title Autochthonous Case of Eosinophilic Meningitis Caused by Angiostrongylus cantonensis, France, 2016
title_full Autochthonous Case of Eosinophilic Meningitis Caused by Angiostrongylus cantonensis, France, 2016
title_fullStr Autochthonous Case of Eosinophilic Meningitis Caused by Angiostrongylus cantonensis, France, 2016
title_full_unstemmed Autochthonous Case of Eosinophilic Meningitis Caused by Angiostrongylus cantonensis, France, 2016
title_short Autochthonous Case of Eosinophilic Meningitis Caused by Angiostrongylus cantonensis, France, 2016
title_sort autochthonous case of eosinophilic meningitis caused by angiostrongylus cantonensis, france, 2016
topic Research Letter
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5443449/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28518042
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2306.161999
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