| Literature DB >> 18342273 |
A B Ali1, Erwin Van den Enden, Alfons Van Gompel, Marjan Van Esbroeck.
Abstract
Eosinophilic meningitis is a rare clinical entity. The most frequent cause in travellers to the tropics is infection with the rat lungworm Angiostrongylus cantonensis. In this report, we describe a case of eosinophilic meningitis due to infection with this nematode in a traveller who presented with slight headache, diarrhoea, general malaise and thoracic radicular pain after a trip through Latin America and the Fiji Islands. She responded less than optimally to repeated steroid and albendazole treatments, but finally recovered completely.Entities:
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Year: 2007 PMID： 18342273 DOI： 10.1016/j.tmaid.2007.09.001
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Travel Med Infect Dis ISSN： 1477-8939 Impact factor: 6.211