1. Fatal Naegleria fowleri Meningoencephalitis, Italy
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Paola E. Cogo, Massimo Scaglia, Simonetta Gatti, Flavio Rossetti, Rita Alaggio, Anna Maria Laverda, Ling Zhou, Lihua Xiao, and Govinda S. Visvesvara
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Meningoencephalitis ,Naegleria fowleri ,Amoeba ,dispatch ,Italy ,Medicine ,Infectious and parasitic diseases ,RC109-216 - Abstract
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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- 2004
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