原发性阿米巴脑膜脑炎

Cain A R, Wiley P F, Brownell B, Warhurst D C

Arch Dis Child. 1981 Feb;56(2):140-3. doi: 10.1136/adc.56.2.140.

The third case in the UK of primary amoebic meningoencephalitis is reported; it affected an 11-year-old girl. Six days before admission the girl had swum in a pool fed by hot spring water in which the causative agent Naegleria fowleri was found. Early treatment with amphotericin B would seem to offer the only hope of recovery in this almost uniformly fatal infection.

英国报告了第三例原发性阿米巴脑膜脑炎病例；患者为一名11岁女孩。入院前六天，该女孩曾在一个由温泉水供水的游泳池游泳，在该温泉水中发现了致病病原体福氏耐格里阿米巴。对于这种几乎无一例外会致命的感染，早期使用两性霉素B进行治疗似乎是康复的唯一希望。