Chronic Prototheca Meningitis

Koji Takaki, Kenji Okada, M Umeno, Masahito Tanaka, Tatsusuke Takeda, Kayoko Ohsaki, Y. Takaki, Yoshinori Sawae

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases · 1996 · 28 citations · 10 references

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Abstract

A case of chronic meningitis caused by the achloric alga Prototheca wickerhamii is described, which has persisted for more than 6 years despite treatment with various antifungal agents. For the last year no treatment has been given, but the patient has no complaints.

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