Diagnosis of First Case of Balamuthia Amoebic Encephalitis in Portugal by Immunofluorescence and PCR

We report here the first Portuguese case of acute fatal granulomatous encephalitis attributed to Balamuthia mandrillaris, initially thought to be a brain tumor, which had a progressive and fatal outcome. Balamuthia mandrillaris is a free-living amoeba recognized as an uncommon agent of granulomatous...

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Main Authors: Tavares, Marta, Correia da Costa, Jose M., Carpenter, S. Stirling, Santos, L. A., Afonso, Caldas, Aguiar, Álvaro, Pereira, Josue, Cardoso, Ana Isabel, Schuster, Frederick L., Yagi, Shigeo, Sriram, Rama, Visvesvara, Govinda S.
Formato: Artigo
Idioma:Inglês
Publicado em: American Society for Microbiology 2006
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Case Reports
Acesso em linha:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1489463/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16825409
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1128/JCM.00479-06
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