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[Molecular diagnosis of a fatal primary amoebic meningoencephalitis in Guadeloupe (French West Indies)].
Bulletin de la Societe de pathologie exotique (1990) - 1 Feb 2010
Nicolas M, De Jonckheere J F, Pernin P, Bataille H, Le Bris V, Herrmann-Storck C
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We report the first case of primary amoebic meningoencephalitis in a 9-year-old boy in Guadeloupe. The outcome was rapidly fatal in 7 days. The patient presumably acquired the infection by swimming and diving in a basin supplied by natural thermal water 1 week before onset of the disease. The possibility of a free-living amoeba infection was suspected both on the negativity of all bacterial and viral initial...
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