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ArticleEmerging infectious diseases2024

Fatal Case of Naegleria fowleri Primary Amebic Meningoencephalitis from Indoor Surfing Center, Taiwan, 2023.

Hsin-Yi Wei, Yi-Wen Lai, Shu-Ying Li, Yen-I Lee, Meng-Kai Hu, Da-Der Ji, Chia-Ping Su

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Article in Emerging infectious diseases, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Global Review onInfectious disease reports · 2026
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  2. One health (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Hsin-Yi Wei
Yi-Wen Lai
Shu-Ying Li
Yen-I Lee
Meng-Kai Hu
Da-Der Ji
Chia-Ping Su

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We investigated a fatal case of primary amoebic meningoencephalitis from an indoor surfing center in Taiwan. The case was detected through encephalitis syndromic surveillance. Of 56 environmental specimens, 1 was positive for Naegleria fowleri ameba. This report emphasizes the risk for N. fowleri infection from inadequately disinfected recreational waters, even indoors.

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Central Nervous System Protozoal InfectionsNaegleria fowleriAdultAmebiasisFatal OutcomeHumansMaleMeningoencephalitisTaiwanindoor recreational watersmeningitis/encephalitisNaegleria fowlerinext-generation sequencingparasitesprimary amoebic meningoencephalitissurfingsyndromic surveillanceTaiwan

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PMID39174030
PMCPMC11346987

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