RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Primary amoebic meningoencephalitis.
JF Archives of Disease in Childhood
JO Arch Dis Child
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
SP 140
OP 143
DO 10.1136/adc.56.2.140
VO 56
IS 2
A1 Cain, A R
A1 Wiley, P F
A1 Brownell, B
A1 Warhurst, D C
YR 1981
UL http://adc.bmj.com/content/56/2/140.abstract
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.