The helminthic eosinophilic Meningitides: Emerging Zoonotic parasitic diseases worldwide

Tropical Medicine and Health

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 115-126

  Diaz, James H ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Eosinophilia, peripheral and cerebrospinal; Infestations, helminthic; Larva migrans, neural and ocular; Meningitis, eosinophilic; Parasitic diseases, angiostrongyliasis, baylisascariasis, gnathostomiasis

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE; CEFTRIAXONE; CORTICOSTEROID; IVERMECTIN; MANNITOL; PLACEBO; PRAZIQUANTEL; PREDNISOLONE; RIBOSOME DNA;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANGIOSTRONGYLIASIS; ANGIOSTRONGYLUS CANTONENSIS; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BAYLISASCARIASIS; BAYLISASCARIS PROCYONIS; BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION; BRAIN CANCER; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN VENTRICLE PERITONEUM SHUNT; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID EXAMINATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DEMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; ENDEMIC DISEASE; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EOSINOPHILIA; ETHNICITY; FOOD PREFERENCE; FOOD PROCESSING; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GNASTHOSTOMA SPINIGERUM; GNATHOSTOMIASIS; HEADACHE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HELMINTHIASIS; HELMINTHIC EOSINOPHILIC MENINGITIS; HELMINTHIC EOSINOPHILIC MENINGTIS; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; IMPORT DISEASE; INCUBATION TIME; INFECTION RISK; JAPAN; LEUKOCYTE DIFFERENTIAL COUNT; LIFESTYLE; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; MEDLINE; MENINGITIS; MICROSCOPY; MYCOSIS; NEMATODE; NEUROCYSTICERCOSIS; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARASITOSIS; PLEOCYTOSIS; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH; REVIEW; SOUTH AMERICA; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; SOUTHEAST ASIA; TRAVEL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; VIRUS INFECTION; ZOONOSIS;

EID: 79954589763     PISSN: 13488945     EISSN: 13494147     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2149/tmh.2009-20     Document Type: Review

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