| Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3393646 | Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease | 2008 | 4 Pages |
Abstract
SummaryEosinophilic meningitis is a rare clinical entity. The most frequent cause in travellers to the tropics is infection with the rat lungworm Angiostrongylus cantonensis. In this report, we describe a case of eosinophilic meningitis due to infection with this nematode in a traveller who presented with slight headache, diarrhoea, general malaise and thoracic radicular pain after a trip through Latin America and the Fiji Islands. She responded less than optimally to repeated steroid and albendazole treatments, but finally recovered completely.
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Authors
A.B. Ali, Erwin Van den Enden, Alfons Van Gompel, Marjan Van Esbroeck,