| Title | Rapidly fatal Acanthamoeba encephalitis and treatment of cryoglobulinemia. | | Author(s) | Meersseman W, Lagrou K, Sciot R, de Jonckheere J, Haberler C, Walochnik J, Peetermans WE, van Wijngaerden E | | Institution | Division of General Internal Medicine, Gasthuisberg University Hospital, Leuven, Belgium. wouter.meersseman@uz.kuleuven.ac.be | | Source | Emerg Infect Dis 2007 Mar; 13(3):469-71. | | Abstract | We describe a 66-year-old woman with therapy-refractory cryoglobulinemia treated with rituximab, plasmapheresis, and steroids; a case of fatal meningoencephalitis caused by Acanthamoeba spp. then developed. Such infections are rare and show an unusually rapid course (possibly related to rituximab). | | Language | eng | | Pub Type(s) | Journal Article
| | PubMed ID | 17552103 |
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