1. Angiostrongylus cantonensis Infection of Central Nervous System, Guiana Shield
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Emma Cuadro-Alvarez, Elise Martin, Loïc Epelboin, Antoine Defo, Céline Dard, Annabelle Brunelin, Dorothée Harrois, Yvonne Qvarnstrom, Narcisse Elenga, Falucar Njuieyon, Magalie Demar, Yajaira Mrsic, Fanny Henaff, Denis Blanchet, Nicole Desbois-Nogard, Noémie Lachaume, Chimène Maniassom, Service de Pédiatrie [Cayenne, Guyanne Française], Centre Hospitalier Andrée Rosemon [Cayenne, Guyane Française], Groupe d'histoire et diffusion des sciences d'Orsay (GHDSO), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11), Unité des Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales (UMIT), Université de Guyane (UG), Laboratoire de Biologie Médicale [CH Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe], Centre Hospitalier de Basse-Terre [Guadeloupe], Laboratoire de Microbiologie, CHU Pointe-à-Pitre/Abymes [Guadeloupe], Department of parasitic diseases, Centers for Disease Control, Medicine Department, Ecosystemes Amazoniens et Pathologie Tropicale (EPat), Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université de Guyane (UG)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université de Guyane (UG), Laboratoire de parasitologie-mycologie, CHU Grenoble, EA 3593 Université des Antilles et de la Guyane, Service de Pédiatrie, and Centre Hospitalier Andrée Rosemon [Cayenne, Guyane Française]-Centre Hospitalier Andrée Rosemon [Cayenne, Guyane Française]
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Microbiology (medical) ,Pathology ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Eosinophilic Meningitis ,Epidemiology ,Central nervous system ,030231 tropical medicine ,lcsh:Medicine ,parasites ,Angiostrongylus cantonensis infection ,Transverse myelitis ,Serology ,lcsh:Infectious and parasitic diseases ,03 medical and health sciences ,Cerebrospinal fluid ,0302 clinical medicine ,transverse myelitis ,eosinophilic meningitis ,[SDV.MHEP.MI]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Human health and pathology/Infectious diseases ,parasitic diseases ,medicine ,lcsh:RC109-216 ,030212 general & internal medicine ,[SDV.MHEP.ME]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Human health and pathology/Emerging diseases ,biology ,business.industry ,lcsh:R ,Angiostrongylus cantonensis ,medicine.disease ,biology.organism_classification ,3. Good health ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,Infectious Diseases ,Guiana Shield ,nematodes ,Angiostrongyliasis ,meningitis/encephalitis ,business - Abstract
International audience; We report a case of eosinophilic meningitis complicated by transverse myelitis caused by Angiostrongylus cantonensis in a 10-year-old boy from Brazil who had traveled to Suriname. We confirmed diagnosis by serology and real-time PCR in the cerebrospinal fluid. The medical community should be aware of angiostrongyliasis in the Guiana Shield.
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- 2018