Angiostrongylus cantonensis is an Important Cause of Eosinophilic Meningitis in southern Vietnam

Autor:	Nguyen Hoan Phu, Tran Tan Thanh, Dinh Xuan Sinh, Angela McBride, Nguyen Thi Thu Hong, Le Hong Thai, Le Thi Xuan, Nguyen Thi Hoang Mai, Ly Van Chuong, Nguyen To Anh, Tran P M Sieu, Tran Thi Hue Van, Jeremy N. Day, Le Van Tan, Nguyen Duy Phong, Nguyen Van Vinh Chau, Guy E. Thwaites, Tran Thi Hong Chau, Tran Tinh Hien, Ho Dang Trung Nghia
Rok vydání:	2017
Předmět:	0301 basic medicine Microbiology (medical) Adult Male Eosinophilic Meningitis Adolescent 030231 tropical medicine Polymerase Chain Reaction law.invention Cohort Studies Tertiary Care Centers 03 medical and health sciences Young Adult 0302 clinical medicine eosinophilic meningitis law Eosinophilia medicine Animals Humans Meningitis Prospective Studies Prospective cohort study Polymerase chain reaction Strongylida Infections biology business.industry Brief Report Angiostrongylus cantonensis Vietnam biology.organism_classification medicine.disease 3. Good health 030104 developmental biology Infectious Diseases Cohort Immunology Female medicine.symptom business Cohort study
Zdroj:	Clinical Infectious Diseases: An Official Publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America
ISSN:	1058-4838 1537-6591
Popis:	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.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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