Primary amebic meningoencephalitis associated with hot spring exposure during international travel - Seminole County, Florida, July 2014

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report

Volumn 64, Issue 43, 2015, Pages 1226-

  Booth, Peggy J ^a   Bodager, Dean ^b   Slade, Tania A ^a   Jett, Swannie ^a  

^a Florida Department in Health Seminole County   (United States)

^b FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADVERSE EFFECTS; AMEBIASIS; CASE REPORT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM PROTOZOAL INFECTIONS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CHILD; COSTA RICA; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FATALITY; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; NAEGLERIA FOWLERI; PARASITOLOGY; THERMAL SPRING; TRAVEL; UNITED STATES;

AMEBIASIS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM PROTOZOAL INFECTIONS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CHILD; COSTA RICA; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FATAL OUTCOME; FLORIDA; HOT SPRINGS; HUMANS; MALE; NAEGLERIA FOWLERI; TRAVEL;

EID: 84947439796     PISSN: 01492195     EISSN: 1545861X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.15585/mmwr.mm6443a5     Document Type: Note

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