Primary amoebic meningoencephalitis.
- 1 February 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by BMJ in Archives of Disease in Childhood
- Vol. 56 (2), 140-143
- https://doi.org/10.1136/adc.56.2.140
Abstract
The 3rd case in the UK of primary amoebic meningoencephalitis is reported; it affected an 11 yr old girl. Six days before admission the girl swam in a pool fed by hot spring water in which the causative agent Naegleria fowleri was found. Early treatment with amphotericin B would seem to offer the only hope of recovery in this almost uniformly fatal infection.This publication has 8 references indexed in Scilit:
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