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Alternative Title:
Emerg Infect Dis
Personal Author:
Cogo, Paola E. ; Scaglia, Massimo ; Gatti, Simonetta ; Rossetti, Flavio ; Alaggio, Rita ; ... More +
Cogo, Paola E. ; Scaglia, Massimo ; Gatti, Simonetta ; Rossetti, Flavio ; Alaggio, Rita ; Laverda, Anna Maria ; Zhou, Ling ; Xiao, Lihua ; Visvesvara, Govinda S. ; Less -
Description:
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 basis of polymerase chain reaction test results.
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Amebiasis
Amoeba
Animals
Brain
Child
Dispatch
Fatal Outcome
Humans
Italy
Male
Meningoencephalitis
Naegleria Fowleri

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Emerg Infect Dis. 10(10):1835-1837. ;
Document Type:
Journal Article ;
Collection(s):
Emerging Infectious Diseases
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