PRIMARY AMOEBIC MENINGOENCEPHALITIS: FIFTEEN YEARS LATER
- 1 April 1980
- journal article
- review article
- Published by AMPCo in The Medical Journal of Australia
- Vol. 1 (8) , 352-354
- https://doi.org/10.5694/j.1326-5377.1980.tb134919.x
Abstract
Primary amoebic meningoencephalitis is a fulminant and rapidly fatal disease which principally affects children and young adults. The causative organism is Naegleria fowleri, an amoebo‐flagellate fou...Keywords
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