A rare cause of left-sided weakness in an elderly woman: amoebic encephalitis

Lancet. 2020 Jul 11;396(10244):e1. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)31365-9.
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Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aged, 80 and over
  • Balamuthia mandrillaris / isolation & purification
  • Brain / diagnostic imaging
  • Brain / pathology
  • Central Nervous System Protozoal Infections / diagnosis
  • Central Nervous System Protozoal Infections / parasitology*
  • Fatal Outcome
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Infectious Encephalitis / diagnosis
  • Infectious Encephalitis / parasitology*
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed