Primary amebic meningoencephalitis: Two new cases report from Venezuela;Meningoencefalitis amebiana primaria: Comunicacion de dos nuevos casos Venezolanos

Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1043-1046

  Petit, Fátima ^a   Vilchez, Varinka ^a   Torres, Gustavo ^a   Molina, Omaira ^b   Dorfman, Saúl ^c   Mora, Eduardo ^b   Cardozo, José ^a,d  

^a Hospital General del Sur   (Venezuela)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DE MARACAIBO   (Venezuela)

^c Hospital Noriega Trigo   (Venezuela)

^d Hospital Universitario ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Free living amebas; Naegleria fowleri; Primary amebic menigoencephalitis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMEBIASIS; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CASE REPORT; DROWSINESS; FEVER; HEADACHE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MALE; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; NAEGLERIA FOWLERI; SCHOOL CHILD; VENEZUELA; VOMITING;

EID: 33846331274     PISSN: 0004282X     EISSN: 16784227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0004-282X2006000600034     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. Astorga B. Amebas de vida libre: diagnóstico de Acanthamoeba sp. en pacientes con queratitis. SOCHILTM 2004;1-3
2. Fowler N, Carter RT. Acute pyogenic meningitis probably due toA c a ntamoeba sp: a preliminary report. Br Med J 1965;2:740-742.
3. Chutatip S. J Med Assoc Thai 2005;88:701-707.
4. Martinez A, Vivesvara G. Free-living, amphizoic and opportunistic amebas. Brain Pathol 1997;7:583-598.
5. Jain R, Prabhakar S. Naegleria meningitis: a rare survival. Neurology (Indian) 2002;50:4702.
6. Brass K. Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift 1972;51:1983-1985.
7. Rodríguez R, Méndez O, Molina O, et al. Infección del sistema nervioso central por amebas de vida libre: comunicación de tres nuevos casos venezolanos. Rev Neurol 1998;26:1005-1008.
8. Martinez J, Guerra A, García J, Céspedes G, Gonzáles J, Vivesvara G. Granulomatous amebic encephalitis: a review and report of a spontaneous case from Venezuela. Acta Neuropatol 1994;87:430-434.
9. Marcial M, Rojas M. Protozoal and helmintic disease. Kissano Anderson's Pathology. Mosby Company St. Louis 1990:433.
10. Riestra J, Riestra R, Gonzalez A, et al. Granulomatous amebic encephalitis to Balamuthia mandrillaris (leptomyxidae): report of four cases from Mexico. Am J Trop Med Hyg 1997;56:603-607.
11. Martinez J. Infection of the central nervous system due to acanthamoeba. Rev Inf Dis 1991;13:399-402.
12. Martinez J. Free-living amebas: natural history, prevention, pathology, and treatment of disease. Boca Raton: CRC Press 1985:156.
13. Gonzalez M, Goul E, Dickinson G, Martinez A, Vivesvara G, Hensley C. Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome associated with Acanthamoeba infection and other opportunistic organisms. Arch Pathol Lab Med 1986;110:749-751.
14. Rowen J, Doerr C, Vogel H, Becker C. Balamuthia mandrillaris: a newly recognized agent for amebic meningoencephalitis. Pediatr Inf Dis J 1995;14:705-710.
15. Berrueta T. Naegleriosis, acanthamoebosis, balamuthiosis. Dep de Micr Parasit, UNAM. 2004:1-7.
16. Stevens A, Shulman S. Primary amoebic meningoencephalitis: a report of two cases and antibiotic and immunologic studies. J Infect Dis 1981;143:193-199.
17. Janitschke K, Martinez A, Vivesvara G, Schuster F. Animal model Balamuthia mandrillaris CNS infection. Contrast and comparison in immunodeficient and immunocompetent mice: a murine model of granulomatous amebic encephalitis. J Neuropathol Exp Neurol 1996;55:815-821.
18. Carter R. Description of a Naegleria spp. isolated from two cases of primary amoebic meningoencephalitis and of the experimental pathological changes induced by it. J Path 1970;100:217-244.
19. Bamett N, Kaplan A, Hopkin R, Saubolle M, Rudinsky M. Primary amoebic meningoencephalitis whit Naegleria fowleri: clinical review. Ped Neurol 1996;15:230-234.
20. Salles-Gomes C Jr, Barbosa E, Nóbrega J, Spina-FrancaA. Meningoencefalomielite amebiana primaria: registrode caso. Arq Neuropsiquiatr 1978;36:139-142.