Primary amebic meningoencephalitis associated with exposure to swimming pool water supplied by an overland pipe — Inyo county, California, 2015

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report

Volumn 65, Issue 16, 2016, Pages 424-

  Johnson, Richard O ^a   Cope, Jennifer R ^b   Moskowitz, Marvin ^c   Kahler, Amy ^b   Hill, Vincent ^b   Behrendt, Kaleigh ^a   Molina, Louis ^d   Fullerton, Kathleen E ^b   Beach, Michael J ^b  

^a Inyo County Health and Human Services   (United States)

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

^c Inyo County Environmental Health   (United States)

^d Mono County Environmental Health   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE EFFECTS; CALIFORNIA; CASE REPORT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM PROTOZOAL INFECTIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; NAEGLERIA FOWLERI; SWIMMING POOL; WATER SUPPLY; YOUNG ADULT;

CALIFORNIA; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM PROTOZOAL INFECTIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; NAEGLERIA FOWLERI; SWIMMING POOLS; WATER SUPPLY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84964905984     PISSN: 01492195     EISSN: 1545861X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.15585/mmwr.mm6516a4     Document Type: Note

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