Posts Tagged ‘Naegleria fowleri’

August 25th, 2013

Death from “Brain-Eating Parasite”: A Reminder of How Little We Really Know

  Sometimes it takes a lot to surprise an ID doctor — we who try to make it seem like we’ve seen it all — but certain infections are either so severe (e.g., necrotizing fasciitis from group A strep) or so rare (e.g., endocarditis from Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae) that even we are startled. Doubly startling are those infections […]


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