title: Eosinophilic meningitis due to Angiostrongylus cantonensis in a Belgian traveller.
abstract: Eosinophilic meningitis is a rare clinical entity. The most frequent cause in travellers to the tropics is infection with the rat lungworm Angiostrongylus cantonensis. In this report, we describe a case of eosinophilic meningitis due to infection with this nematode in a traveller who presented with slight headache, diarrhoea, general malaise and thoracic radicular pain after a trip through Latin America and the Fiji Islands. She responded less than optimally to repeated steroid and albendazole treatments, but finally recovered completely.
authors.affiliation: Prince Leopold Institute of Tropical Medicine, Kronenburgstraat 43/3, B-2000 Antwerp, Belgium.
authors.forename: A B
authors.initials: AB
authors.lastname: Ali
authors.forename: Erwin
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Van den Enden
authors.forename: Alfons
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Van Gompel
authors.forename: Marjan
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Van Esbroeck
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D015766:Albendazole / Q000627:therapeutic use; D017185:Angiostrongylus cantonensis / Q000472:pathogenicity*; D000818:Animals; D000871:Anthelmintics / Q000627:therapeutic use; D001530:Belgium; D004804:Eosinophils; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008581:Meningitis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy; D017206:Strongylida Infections / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy; D014195:Travel; D016896:Treatment Outcome
chemical_list: D000871:Anthelmintics; D015766:Albendazole