Under the radar: Balamuthia amebic encephalitis

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 48, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 879-887

  Schuster, Frederick L ^a   Yagi, Shigeo ^a   Gavali, Shilpa ^a   Michelson, David ^b   Raghavan, Ravi ^b   Blomquist, Ingrid ^b   Glastonbury, Christine ^c   Bollen, Andrew W ^c   Schamhorst, David ^d   Reed, Sharon L ^e   Kuriyama, Steve ^e   Visvesvara, Govinda S ^f   Glaser, Carol A ^a,g  

^a California Department of Public Health   (United States)

^b LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d Children's Hospital of Central California   (United States)

^e Palomar Medical Center   (United States)

^f CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^g VIRAL AND RICKETTSIAL DISEASE LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA 16S; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 8; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BALAMUTHIA; BALAMUTHIA INFECTION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; INFANT; LABORATORY TEST; LETHARGY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AMEBIASIS; AMOEBA; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; BRAIN; CALIFORNIA; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CYTOKINES; DNA, PROTOZOAN; ENCEPHALITIS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 63649106938     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/597260     Document Type: Article

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