Case Report: Protracted Eosinophilic Meningitis due to Probable Angiostrongyliasis. [PDF]
Am J Trop Med Hyg, 2020 Mansbridge CT, Norton NJ, Fox SM.
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Angiostrongylus cantonensis DNA in Cerebrospinal Fluid of Persons with Eosinophilic Meningitis, Laos [PDF]
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2017 Definitive identification of Angiostrongylus cantonensis parasites from clinical specimens is difficult. As a result, regional epidemiology and burden are poorly characterized.
Damien K.Y. Ming +6 more
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International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2020 Next-generation sequencing (NGS) is an emerging method with the potential of pan-pathogen screening. This study described a case of eosinophilic meningitis (EoM) with enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA)-negative results for Angiostrongylus ...
Yueli Zou +6 more
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A Child With Intermittent Headaches and Eosinophilic Meningitis. [PDF]
J Pediatric Infect Dis Soc, 2018 Saporta-Keating SR +7 more
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Eosinophilic meningitis caused by Angiostrongylus cantonensis in an infant: A case report. [PDF]
Medicine (Baltimore), 2018 Ma M, Zhang M, Qiu Z.
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Angie-LAMP for diagnosis of human eosinophilic meningitis using dog as proxy: A LAMP assay for Angiostrongylus cantonensis DNA in cerebrospinal fluid. [PDF]
PLoS Negl Trop Dis, 2023 Background Angiostrongylus cantonensis (rat lungworm) is recognised as the leading cause of human eosinophilic meningitis, a serious condition observed when nematode larvae migrate through the CNS.
Baláž V +7 more
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Corticosteroids for parasitic eosinophilic meningitis. [PDF]
Cochrane Database Syst Rev, 2015 Angiostrongylus cantonensis (A. cantonensis) is the major cause of infectious eosinophilic meningitis. Dead larvae of this parasite cause inflammation and exacerbate symptoms of meningitis. Corticosteroids are drugs used to reduce the inflammation caused by this parasite.To assess the efficacy and safety of corticosteroids for the treatment of ...
Thanaviratananich S +2 more
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Increased 14-3-3β and γ protein isoform expressions in parasitic eosinophilic meningitis caused by Angiostrongylus cantonensis infection in mice. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2019 The 14-3-3 proteins are cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) markers of neuronal damage during infectious meningitis and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. Little is known about dynamic changes in the individual isoforms in response to parasitic eosinophilic meningitis ...
Hung-Chin Tsai +4 more
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Eosinophilic meningitis epidemiological data from a national database in Thailand's Department of Disease Control: a pragmatic, retrospective analytical study. [PDF]
Orphanet J Rare Dis, 2022 Background Eosinophilic meningitis (EOM) is a rare neurological disease that can be misdiagnosed or underdiagnosed. Based on reported cases in the literature, there have been 2,827 cases worldwide since 1945.
Khamsai S +8 more
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Zoonotic Rat Lungworm Angiostrongylus cantonensis in Black Rats, Houston, Texas, 2024 [PDF]
Emerging Infectious DiseasesThe Angiostrongylus cantonensis rat lungworm is a zoonotic nematode that infects several rat species. This nematode causes eosinophilic meningitis and meningoencephalitis in humans and other accidental hosts. We found a 20% prevalence of A.
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