Binesh Fariba, Karimi Mehran, Navabii Hossein
Department of Pathology, Shahid Sadoghi Hospital, Yazd, Islamic Republic of Iran.
BMJ Case Rep. 2011 Oct 4;2011:bcr0320113954. doi: 10.1136/bcr.03.2011.3954.
Meningoencephalitis caused by Acanthamoeba spp. is a rare opportunistic infection, difficult to diagnose and treat, which causes death in almost all cases. Here, the authors report a 5-year-old Iranian immunocompetent girl who died of fulminant acanthamoeba meningoencephalitis. To the authors' knowledge, this is the first case of acanthamoeba meningoencephalitis in Iran.
棘阿米巴属引起的脑膜脑炎是一种罕见的机会性感染,难以诊断和治疗,几乎在所有病例中都会导致死亡。在此,作者报告了一名5岁免疫功能正常的伊朗女孩,她死于暴发性棘阿米巴脑膜脑炎。据作者所知,这是伊朗首例棘阿米巴脑膜脑炎病例。