Fatal Naegleria fowleri meningoencephalitis, Italy

被引：42

作者：

Cogo, PE ^{[1
]}

Scaglia, M

Gatti, S

Rossetti, F

Alaggio, R

Laverda, AM

Zhou, L

Xiao, LH

Visvesvara, GS

机构：

[1] Univ Padua, Dept Pediat, Padua, Italy

[2] Univ Pavia, IRCCS, I-27100 Pavia, Italy

[3] Hosp Monselice, Padua, Italy

[4] Ctr Dis Control & Prevent, Atlanta, GA USA

来源：

EMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASES | 2004年 / 10卷 / 10期

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D O I：

10.3201/eid1010.040273

中图分类号：

R392 [医学免疫学]; Q939.91 [免疫学];

学科分类号：

100102 ;

摘要：

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.

引用

页码：1835 / 1837

页数：3

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