PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Fariba Binesh
AU  - Mehran Karimi
AU  - Hossein Navabii
TI  - Unexpected postmortem diagnosis of acanthamoeba meningoencephalitis in an immunocompetent child
AID  - 10.1136/bcr.03.2011.3954
DP  - 2011 Oct 07
TA  - BMJ Case Reports
PG  - bcr0320113954
VI  - 2011
4099  - http://casereports.bmj.com/content/2011/bcr.03.2011.3954.short
4100  - http://casereports.bmj.com/content/2011/bcr.03.2011.3954.full
AB  - Meningoencephalitis caused by Acanthamoeba spp. is a rare opportunistic infection, difficult to diagnose and treat, which causes death in almost all cases. Here, the authors report a 5-year-old Iranian immunocompetent girl who died of fulminant acanthamoeba meningoencephalitis. To the authors’ knowledge, this is the first case of acanthamoeba meningoencephalitis in Iran.