Primary amebic meningoencephalitis deaths associated with sinus irrigation using contaminated tap water

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 55, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Yoder, Jonathan S ^a   Straif Bourgeois, Susanne ^d   Roy, Sharon L ^a   Moore, Thomas A ^e   Visvesvara, Govinda S ^a   Ratard, Raoult C ^d   Hill, Vincent R ^a   Wilson, Jon D ^f   Linscott, Andrea J ^e   Crager, Ron ^g   Kozak, Natalia A ^b   Sriram, Rama ^a   Narayanan, Jothikumar ^a   Mull, Bonnie ^a   Kahler, Amy M ^a   Schneeberger, Chandra ^a   Da Silva, Alexandre J ^c   Poudel, Mahendra ^e   Baumgarten, Katherine L ^e   Xiao, Lihua ^a   Beach, Michael J ^a   more..

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR IMMUNIZATION AND RESPIRATORY DISEASES   (United States)

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

^d LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HOSPITALS   (United States)

^e OCHSNER CLINIC FOUNDATION   (United States)

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

^g DeSoto Parish Coroner   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME RNA; TAP WATER;

ADULT; AMEBIC INFECTION; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CASE REPORT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CULTURE; FEMALE; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; LAVAGE; MALE; MEDICAL DEVICE; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; NAEGLERIA FOWLERI; NONHUMAN; NOSE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIMARY AMEBIC MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER SAMPLING; WATER SUPPLY;

ADULT; AMEBIASIS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM PROTOZOAL INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOUISIANA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NAEGLERIA FOWLERI; PARANASAL SINUS DISEASES; THERAPEUTIC IRRIGATION;

EID: 84867489520     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/cis626     Document Type: Article

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