| Literature DB >> 25694532 |
Chuan Kok Lim1, April Crawford2, Casey V Moore3, Robin B Gasser4, Renjy Nelson5, Anson V Koehler4, Richard S Bradbury6, Rick Speare7, Deepak Dhatrak2, Gerhard F Weldhagen3.
Abstract
Halicephalobus gingivalis (previously Micronema deletrix) is a free-living nematode known to cause opportunistic infections, mainly in horses. Human infections are very rare, but all cases described to date involved fatal meningoencephalitis. Here we report the first case of H. gingivalis infection in an Australian human patient, confirmed by nematode morphology and sequencing of ribosomal DNA. The implications of this case are discussed, particularly, the need to evaluate real-time PCR as a diagnostic tool.Entities:
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Year: 2015 PMID： 25694532 PMCID： PMC4400780 DOI： 10.1128/JCM.00032-15
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Clin Microbiol ISSN： 0095-1137 Impact factor: 5.948