Tackling infection owing to brain-eating amoeba

Acta Tropica

Volumn 142, Issue , 2015, Pages 86-88

  Baig, Abdul Mannan ^a   Khan, Naveed Ahmed ^a  

^a AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Brain eating amoebae; Diagnosis; Management; Naegleria fowleri; Primary amoebic meningoencephalitis; Treatment

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; DIAZEPAM; HALOPERIDOL; LOPERAMIDE; MANNITOL; MICONAZOLE; MILTEFOSINE; PARALDEHYDE; PHENYTOIN; RIFAMPICIN;

BRAIN; DISEASE TREATMENT; DISEASE VECTOR; PUBLIC HEALTH;

ACANTHAMOEBA ENCEPHALITIS; AMOEBA (LIFE CYCLE STAGE); CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; NAEGLERIA FOWLERI; NONHUMAN; OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGY DIAGNOSTIC DEVICE; PRIMARY AMEBIC MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIBRIAL ROUTE DEVICE; REVIEW; SEIZURE; AMEBIASIS; ANIMAL; CATHETER; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM PROTOZOAL INFECTIONS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; NOSE; PARASITOLOGY;

NAEGLERIA FOWLERI;

AMEBIASIS; ANIMALS; CATHETERS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM PROTOZOAL INFECTIONS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; NAEGLERIA FOWLERI; NOSE;

EID: 84912081497     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: 18736254     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2014.11.004     Document Type: Review

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