title: Fatal Naegleria fowleri meningoencephalitis, Italy.
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.
authors.affiliation: Pediatric Intensive Care, Department of Pediatrics, University of Padova, Padova, Italy. cogo@pediatria.unipd.it
authors.forename: Paola E
authors.initials: PE
authors.lastname: Cogo
authors.forename: Massimo
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Scagli
authors.forename: Simonetta
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Gatti
authors.forename: Flavio
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Rossetti
authors.forename: Rita
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Alaggio
authors.forename: Anna Maria
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Laverda
authors.forename: Ling
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.forename: Lihua
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Xiao
authors.forename: Govinda S
authors.initials: GS
authors.lastname: Visvesvara
mesh_terms: D000562:Amebiasis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D000818:Animals; D001921:Brain / Q000469:parasitology / Q000473:pathology; D002648:Child; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D006801:Humans; D007558:Italy; D008297:Male; D008590:Meningoencephalitis / Q000469:parasitology* / Q000473:pathology; D016848:Naegleria fowleri / Q000302:isolation & purification*