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 basis of polymerase chain reaction test results.
Cogo
Paola E
PE
Pediatric Intensive Care, Department of Pediatrics, University of Padova, Padova, Italy. cogo@pediatria.unipd.it
Scagli
Massimo
M
Gatti
Simonetta
S
Rossetti
Flavio
F
Alaggio
Rita
R
Laverda
Anna Maria
AM
Zhou
Ling
L
Xiao
Lihua
L
Visvesvara
Govinda S
GS
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*