Fatal Naegleria fowleri meningoencephalitis, Italy

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 ba...

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Published in:Emerging infectious diseases 2004-10, Vol.10 (10), p.1835-1837
Main Authors: Cogo, Paola E, Scagli, Massimo, Gatti, Simonetta, Rossetti, Flavio, Alaggio, Rita, Laverda, Anna Maria, Zhou, Ling, Xiao, Lihua, Visvesvara, Govinda S
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Amebiasis - diagnosis
Amebiasis - pathology
Amoeba
Animals
Brain - parasitology
Brain - pathology
Case studies
Child
Dispatch
Fatal Outcome
Humans
Identification and classification
Italy
Male
Meningoencephalitis
Meningoencephalitis - parasitology
Meningoencephalitis - pathology
Naegleria fowleri
Naegleria fowleri - isolation & purification
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Summary: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.
ISSN:1080-6040
1080-6059
DOI:10.3201/eid1010.040273