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1. Two fatal cases of eosinophilic myeloencephalitis a newly recognized disease caused by Gnathostoma spinigerum

Author

Sompone Punyagupta, Dhira S. Comer, Thanongsak Bunnag, and Pipat Juttijudata

Subjects
Adult, Male, Pathology, medicine.medical_specialty, Adult male, Disease, Gnathostoma spinigerum, Eosinophilic, Paralysis, medicine, Eosinophilia, Helminths, Humans, Encephalomyelitis, Nematode Infections, Cerebral Hemorrhage, Gnathostomiasis, biology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Brain, General Medicine, Middle Aged, biology.organism_classification, medicine.disease, Eosinophils, Infectious Diseases, Parasitology, Female, medicine.symptom, Spiruroidea
Abstract

2 immature adult male nematodes, identified as Gnathostoma spinigerum , were recovered, for the first time, from the brain at the post mortem examination of 2 patients who died of a newly recognized disease, cosinophilic myeloencephalitis. 54 similar cases were recorded in the 5 studied provinces of Thailand during the 2-year period, indicating the significance of this disease.

Published
1968

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