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Clin Infect Dis
; 64(12): 1784-1787, 2017 Jun 15.
Artigo
em Inglês
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-28158507
RESUMO
We utilized polymerase chain reaction (PCR) to demonstrate that Angiostrongylus cantonensis was responsible for 67.3% of 55 cases of eosinophilic meningitis from a cohort of 1,690 adult patients with CNS infection at a tertiary hospital in southern Vietnam. Longer duration of illness, depressed consciousness, and peripheral blood eosinophilia were associated with PCR positivity.