1. Angiostrongyliasis in the Americas
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María Esther Magraner-Tarrau, Alberto Juan Dorta-Contreras, and Eduardo Sánchez-Zulueta
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Microbiology (medical) ,Eosinophilic Meningitis ,biology ,Epidemiology ,lcsh:R ,Zoonosis ,letter ,Angiostrongylus cantonensis ,lcsh:Medicine ,Meningoencephalitis ,parasites ,intrathecal synthesis ,medicine.disease ,biology.organism_classification ,Virology ,United States ,lcsh:Infectious and parasitic diseases ,Infectious Diseases ,Immunology ,medicine ,Angiostrongyliasis ,lcsh:RC109-216 ,Americas ,Meningitis - Abstract
To the Editor: We read with special interest the article by Hochberg et al. about angiostrongyliasis in Hawaii (1). Angiostrongylus cantonensis meningitis in the Americas was reported by Aguiar et al. in Cuba in 1981 (2), and we have studied this zoonosis during the ensuing 25 years. We agree with the authors about the difficulty in obtaining a specific immunoassay for detection of antibodies to A. cantonensis antigens. In Cuba, as in Hawaii, no other cause of eosinophilic meningitis was identified.
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- 2009
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