Eosinophilic Meningitis Due to Angiostrongylus Cantonensis in a Returned Traveler: Case Report and Review of the Literature

Overview

Journal Clin Infect Dis

Publisher Oxford University Press

Specialty Infectious Diseases

Date 2001 Sep 25

PMID 11568860

Citations 11

Authors

V Lo Re 3rd

S J Gluckman

Affiliations

Soon will be listed here.

Abstract

Angiostrongylus cantonensis, the rat lungworm, is the principal cause of eosinophilic meningitis worldwide, and the increase in world travel and shipborne dispersal of infected rat vectors has extended this parasite to regions outside of its traditional geographic boundaries. We report a case of eosinophilic meningitis due to A. cantonensis in a patient who recently returned from a trip in the Pacific.

Citing Articles

Diagnosis of human angiostrongyliasis in a case of hydrocephalus using next-generation sequencing: a case report and literature review.

Liu D, Li N, Zhu Y, Chen Q, Fan X, Feng J BMC Neurol. 2024; 24(1):281.

PMID: 39134956 PMC: 11318341. DOI: 10.1186/s12883-024-03663-7.

Transmission sources and severe rat lung worm diseases in travelers: a scoping review.

Meesing A, Khamsai S, Sawanyawisuth K, Tiamkao S, Maleewong W, Limpawattana P Trop Dis Travel Med Vaccines. 2023; 9(1):2.

PMID: 36759878 PMC: 9912548. DOI: 10.1186/s40794-022-00184-4.

Predictive models for and infection in pathologically or serologically proved eosinophilic meningitis.

Khamsai S, Sawanyawisuth K, Senthong V, Limpawattana P, Chindaprasirt J, Maleewong W Am J Transl Res. 2021; 13(9):10413-10420.

PMID: 34650710 PMC: 8506999.

Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of neuroangiostrongyliasis: updated recommendations.

Ansdell V, Kramer K, McMillan J, Gosnell W, Murphy G, Meyer B Parasitology. 2020; 148(2):227-233.

PMID: 32729438 PMC: 7887556. DOI: 10.1017/S0031182020001262.

Review of Cases of Angiostrongyliasis in Hawaii, 2007-2017.

I Johnston D, Dixon M, Elm J, Calimlim P, Sciulli R, Park S Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2019; 101(3):608-616.

PMID: 31287041 PMC: 6726938. DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.19-0280.