Primary amoebic meningoencephalitis in an iranian infant

Case Reports in Medicine

Volumn 2012, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Movahedi, Zahra ^a   Shokrollahi, Mohammad Reza ^a   Aghaali, Mohammad ^a   Heydari, Hosein ^a  

^a QOM UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CEFTRIAXONE; ELECTROLYTE; HAPTOGLOBIN; POTASSIUM; RIFAMPICIN; SODIUM; VANCOMYCIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BLOOD CELL COUNT; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EOSINOPHIL; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEVER; FOLLOW UP; HEMATOCRIT; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT DISEASE; IRAN; LEUKOCYTE; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; LYMPHOCYTE; MALE; MONOCYTE; NAEGLERIA FOWLERI; POTASSIUM BLOOD LEVEL; PRIMARY AMEBIC MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; SODIUM BLOOD LEVEL; THROMBOCYTE COUNT;

EID: 85031742776     PISSN: 16879627     EISSN: 16879635     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2012/782854     Document Type: Article

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