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ArticleSurgical neurology international2024

Non-granulomatous meningoencephalitis with

Zanib Javed, Mustafa Mushtaq Hussain, Najia Ghanchi, Ahmed Gilani, S Ather Enam

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Article in Surgical neurology international, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. The first reported case ofFrontiers in medicine · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Zanib JavedDepartment of Neurosurgery, Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan.
Mustafa Mushtaq HussainDepartment of Neurosurgery, Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan.
Najia GhanchiDepartment of Pathology, Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan.
Ahmed GilaniDepartment of Pathology, University of Colorado (Children Hospital Colorado), Children's Hospital Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, United States.
S Ather EnamDepartment of Neurosurgery, Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Background: Free-living amoebae rarely instigate intracranial infections that may resemble neoplastic conditions on imaging. Case Description: The case describes a 33-year-old woman with subacute encephalitis caused by Conclusion: This is the first confirmed case of

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AcanthamoebaBalamuthiaMeningoencephalitisPolymerase chain reactionSanger sequencing

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PMID39108379
PMCPMC11301807

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