Meningitis patients with Angiostrongylus cantonensis may present without eosinophilia in the cerebrospinal fluid in northern Vietnam.
Tomoko HiraokaNgo Chi CuongSugihiro HamaguchiMihoko KikuchiShungo KatohLe Kim AnhNguyen Thi Hien AnhDang Duc AnhChris SmithHaruhiko MaruyamaLay-Myint YoshidaDo Duy CuongPham Thanh ThuyKoya AriyoshiPublished in: PLoS neglected tropical diseases (2020)
The etiology of PM in northern Vietnam is A. cantonensis. The eosinophil percentage is a more reliable predictor of parasitic EM than absolute eosinophil count in the CSF. Patients with PM may present with a high percentage of eosinophils in the peripheral blood but not in the CSF.