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Emerg Infect Dis
; 24(1): 162-164, 2018 01.
Artigo
em Inglês
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-29260676
RESUMO
Primary amebic meningoencephalitis is an acute, rare, typically fatal disease. We used epidemiologic risk factors and multiple cause-of-death mortality data to estimate the number of deaths that fit the typical pattern for primary amebic meningoencephalitis; we estimated an annual average of 16 deaths (8 male, 8 female) in the United States.