Eosinophilia à deux: a brain nagging souvenir from the Philippines

Infection

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 615-617

  Lammers, A J J ^a   Goorhuis, A ^a   van de Beek, D ^a   Grobusch, M P ^a   Bart, A ^a   van Gool, T ^a   van Vugt, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE; GLUCOSE; HELMINTH DNA; PREDNISOLONE; PROTEIN; ANTHELMINTIC AGENT; ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID;

ABDUCENS NERVE PARALYSIS; ABNORMAL LABORATORY RESULT; ADULT; AMPLICON; ANGIOSTRONGYLIASIS; ANGIOSTRONGYLUS; ANGIOSTRONGYLUS CANTONENSIS; ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; ARM WEAKNESS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID EXAMINATION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID PRESSURE; CONFUSION; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DIPLOPIA; DISORIENTATION; DNA DETERMINATION; DUTCHMAN; DYSESTHESIA; EOSINOPHILIC MENINGITIS; FISH MEAT; GENE SEQUENCE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; LEG PAIN; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PHILIPPINES; PLEOCYTOSIS; PROTEIN CEREBROSPINAL FLUID LEVEL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPEAT PROCEDURE; SKIN PAIN; THORAX PAIN; TRAVEL; VEGETABLE; ANIMAL; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; COMPLICATION; CYTOLOGY; EOSINOPHILIA; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MENINGITIS; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; STRONGYLIDA INFECTIONS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ALBENDAZOLE; ANGIOSTRONGYLUS CANTONENSIS; ANIMALS; ANTHELMINTICS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; DNA, HELMINTH; EOSINOPHILIA; HUMANS; MALE; MENINGITIS; MIDDLE AGED; PHILIPPINES; STRONGYLIDA INFECTIONS; TRAVEL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84942553737     PISSN: 03008126     EISSN: 14390973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s15010-015-0785-7     Document Type: Article

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