Death From Primary Amebic Meningoencephalitis After Recreational Water Exposure During Recent Travel to India-Santa Clara County, California, 2020.

Glenn R HarrisEllora N KarmarkarRebecca QuenelleLyndsey ChailleJai MadhokVivian TienJyoti GuptaSeema JainMaria LiuShantanu RoySupriya NarasimhanAkiko KimuraJennifer R CopeIbne Karim M Ali

Published in: Open forum infectious diseases (2021)

A man died from PAM after likely exposure at a vacation rental pool in India. We recommend including PAM in the differential diagnosis when CSF studies suggest bacterial meningitis but gram stain is negative. Genotyping can advance our understanding of N. fowleri molecular epidemiology and support future investigations.

Keyphrases

cerebrospinal fluid
current status
high throughput
gram negative
genome wide
dna methylation
gene expression
multidrug resistant
genetic diversity