Successful Treatment of Balamuthia Amoebic Encephalitis: Presentation of 2 Cases
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- 15 November 2003
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Clinical Infectious Diseases
- Vol. 37 (10) , 1304-1312
- https://doi.org/10.1086/379020
Abstract
Case histories are presented of 2 individuals (a 5-year-old girl and 64-year-old man) who developed encephalitis caused by the free-living amoeba BalKeywords
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