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Eosinophilic meningitis due to Gnathostoma spinigerum
1Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA. vincentl@mail.med.upenn.edu
The Journal of Infection
|September 10, 2002
Abstract:
We present a case of eosinophilic meningitis due to the tissue nematode Gnathostoma spinigerum in a patient with remote travel to Korea. G. spinigerum is found primarily in Southeast Asia, but cases are being increasingly diagnosed in non-endemic areas because of more extensive international travel. The organism has been known to persist in human tissues for over a decade, so earlier travel to endemic areas is important.