Amoebic Meningoencephalitis: A New Amoeba Isolate

Cerva, L; Zimák, V.; Novák, K

doi:10.1126/science.163.3867.575

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Amoebic Meningoencephalitis: A New Amoeba Isolate

Abstract: A strain of Naegleria sp. was isolated repeatedly from the spinal fluid of a boy who died of acute meningoencephalitis 5 days after the onset of the first symptoms.

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Description of a Naegleria sp. isolated from two cases of primary amoebic meningo‐encephalitis, and of the experimental pathological changes induced by it

Description of a Naegleria sp. isolated from two cases of primary amoebic meningo‐encephalitis, and of the experimental pathological changes induced by it

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