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- Title
Fatal Naegleria fowleri meningoencephalitis, Italy.
- Authors
Cogo, Paola E; Scagli, Massimo; Gatti, Simonetta; Rossetti, Flavio; Alaggio, Rita; Laverda, Anna Maria; Zhou, Ling; Xiao, Lihua; Visvesvara, Govinda S
- 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.
- Publication
Emerging infectious diseases, 2004, Vol 10, Issue 10, p1835
- ISSN
1080-6040
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.3201/eid1010.040273