AN OUTBREAK OF ACUTE, FATAL AMEBIC MENINGOENCEPHALITIS
- 1 November 1968
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in American Journal of Epidemiology
- Vol. 88 (3) , 436-444
- https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a120905
Abstract
Červa, L (Piseckeho 15, Praha 5-Kosire, Czechoslovakia), K. Novák and C. G. Culbertson. An outbreak of acute, fatal amebic meningoencephalitis. Amer. J. Epid. 88 436–444. —Between 1962–1965, 16 young persons died of acute, purulent meningoencephalitides in northern Bohemia as a consequence of bathing in a certain indoor swimming pool. Additional parasitological examination of the pathologic brain tissue proved the presence of a massive infection of central nervous system tissue by amebas resembling the limax type in all the deceased. These amebas definitely differ in their dimensions from previously known pathogenic strains of Hartmannella (Acanthamoeba) castellanii, and may possibly be amebas of the genus Naegleria.Keywords
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