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A case of primary amebic meningoencephalitis caused by Naegleria fowleri in Bangladesh

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We present the first recognized case of primary amebic meningoencephalitis (PAM) caused by Naegleria fowleri in a 15-year-old male from Bangladesh. He performed daily nasal rinsing with untreated ground water and bathed in untreated ground water or river water, which likely exposed him to N. fowleri.

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Acknowledgments

icddr,b acknowledges with gratitude the commitment of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), NIH, and Government of Bangladesh for their research efforts. icddr,b is thankful to the Governments of Australia, Bangladesh, Canada, Sweden, and the UK for providing core/unrestricted support.

Funding

The study was funded by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), grant number 07-015-0712-52200 (Bangladesh-NIH/EID), and NSF/NIH Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases grant number 2R01-TW005869 from the Fogarty International Center.

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  1. International Center for Diarrhoeal Diseases Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), 68, Shaheed Tajuddin Ahmed Sarani, Mohakhali, Dhaka, 1212, Bangladesh

    Hossain M. S. Sazzad, Stephen P. Luby & Emily S. Gurley

  2. The Kirby Institute, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

    Hossain M. S. Sazzad

  3. Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA

    Stephen P. Luby

  4. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 1600 Clifton Road NE, Mailstop H23-9, Atlanta, GA, 30329, USA

    James Sejvar, Vincent Hill, Jennifer L. Murphy, Shantanu Roy, Jennifer R. Cope & Ibne K. M. Ali

  5. Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR), Dhaka, Bangladesh

    Mahmudur Rahman

  6. Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA

    Emily S. Gurley

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Sazzad, H.M.S., Luby, S.P., Sejvar, J. et al. A case of primary amebic meningoencephalitis caused by Naegleria fowleri in Bangladesh. Parasitol Res 119, 339–344 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00436-019-06463-y

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