PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Cain, A R
AU  - Wiley, P F
AU  - Brownell, B
AU  - Warhurst, D C
TI  - Primary amoebic meningoencephalitis.
AID  - 10.1136/adc.56.2.140
DP  - 1981 Feb 01
TA  - Archives of Disease in Childhood
PG  - 140--143
VI  - 56
IP  - 2
4099  - http://adc.bmj.com/content/56/2/140.short
4100  - http://adc.bmj.com/content/56/2/140.full
SO  - Arch Dis Child1981 Feb 01; 56
AB  - The third case in the UK of primary amoebic meningoencephalitis is reported; it affected an 11-year-old girl. Six days before admission the girl had swum in a pool fed by hot spring water in which the causative agent Naegleria fowleri was found. Early treatment with amphotericin B would seem to offer the only hope of recovery in this almost uniformly fatal infection.