Survival of primary amebic meningoencephalitis by Naegleria fowleri: First reported case from Tamil Nadu, South India

A case of primary amebic meningoencephalitis (PAM) in a 47-year-old male is described. The disease may have been contracted during bathing. The source of water was from a pond. The clinical presentation, the isolation of the ameba from the cerebrospinal fluid, and the response to amphotericin B are...

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Autores principales: Perumalsamy, Venkatesh, Sundaramoorthy, Raja, Ganesan, Vithiya, Geni, V. G.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7951067/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33747885
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/tp.TP_34_19
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Sundaramoorthy, Raja
Ganesan, Vithiya
Geni, V. G.
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description A case of primary amebic meningoencephalitis (PAM) in a 47-year-old male is described. The disease may have been contracted during bathing. The source of water was from a pond. The clinical presentation, the isolation of the ameba from the cerebrospinal fluid, and the response to amphotericin B are all consistent with the diagnosis of PAM. To our knowledge, this is the first case of PAM to be reported in Tamil Nadu, India.
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spelling pubmed-79510672021-03-18 Survival of primary amebic meningoencephalitis by Naegleria fowleri: First reported case from Tamil Nadu, South India Perumalsamy, Venkatesh Sundaramoorthy, Raja Ganesan, Vithiya Geni, V. G. Trop Parasitol Dispatches A case of primary amebic meningoencephalitis (PAM) in a 47-year-old male is described. The disease may have been contracted during bathing. The source of water was from a pond. The clinical presentation, the isolation of the ameba from the cerebrospinal fluid, and the response to amphotericin B are all consistent with the diagnosis of PAM. To our knowledge, this is the first case of PAM to be reported in Tamil Nadu, India. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2020 2021-01-25 /pmc/articles/PMC7951067/ /pubmed/33747885 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/tp.TP_34_19 Text en Copyright: © 2021 Tropical Parasitology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Survival of primary amebic meningoencephalitis by Naegleria fowleri: First reported case from Tamil Nadu, South India
title Survival of primary amebic meningoencephalitis by Naegleria fowleri: First reported case from Tamil Nadu, South India
title_full Survival of primary amebic meningoencephalitis by Naegleria fowleri: First reported case from Tamil Nadu, South India
title_fullStr Survival of primary amebic meningoencephalitis by Naegleria fowleri: First reported case from Tamil Nadu, South India
title_full_unstemmed Survival of primary amebic meningoencephalitis by Naegleria fowleri: First reported case from Tamil Nadu, South India
title_short Survival of primary amebic meningoencephalitis by Naegleria fowleri: First reported case from Tamil Nadu, South India
title_sort survival of primary amebic meningoencephalitis by naegleria fowleri: first reported case from tamil nadu, south india
topic Dispatches
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7951067/
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