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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Autori principali: 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.
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Lingua:Inglês
Pubblicazione: American Society for Microbiology 2006
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Accesso online: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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