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Amebic pleuro-pericarditis
G Lami1, N Mongiardo, G Zanchetta
1Instituto di clinica delle malattie infettive e tropicali, Università degli studi di Modena.
Bollettino Dell'Istituto Sieroterapico Milanese
|January 1, 1989
Abstract:
Author's report a case of visceral amebiasis in a 26 year old woman, clinically characterized by pericarditis, without any other symptoms related to organs usually interested in such disease. It was possible to reach an etiological diagnosis by indirect hemagglutination assay. The successful treatment with metronidazole confirmed the etiology "ex adjuvantibus".