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.

Fatal Naegleria fowleri meningoencephalitis, Italy / Cogo, Pe; Scagli, M; Gatti, S; Rossetti, F; Alaggio, Rita; Laverda, Am; Zhou, L; Xiao, L; Visvesvara, Gs. - In: EMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASES. - ISSN 1080-6040. - 10:(2004), pp. 1835-1837. [10.3201/eid1010.040273]

Fatal Naegleria fowleri meningoencephalitis, Italy

ALAGGIO, RITA;
2004

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.
2004
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Fatal Naegleria fowleri meningoencephalitis, Italy / Cogo, Pe; Scagli, M; Gatti, S; Rossetti, F; Alaggio, Rita; Laverda, Am; Zhou, L; Xiao, L; Visvesvara, Gs. - In: EMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASES. - ISSN 1080-6040. - 10:(2004), pp. 1835-1837. [10.3201/eid1010.040273]
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