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Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg., 76(2), 2007, pp. 399-402
Copyright © 2007 by The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

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EOSINOPHILIC MENINGITIS CAUSED BY ANGIOSTRONGYLUS CANTONENSIS AFTER INGESTION OF RAW FROGS

CHUNG-HSU LAI, CHUAN-MIN YEN, CHUEN CHIN, HSING-CHUN CHUNG, HUNG-CHANG KUO, AND HSI-HSUN LIN*
Department of Infectious Diseases, and Department of Neurology, E-Da Hospital/I-Shou University, Kaohsiung County, Taiwan, Republic of China; Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, College of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Republic of China

Angiostrongylus cantonensis is the most common cause of eosinophilic meningitis in humans after ingestion of raw or inadequately cooked intermediate hosts or food contaminated with infective third-stage larvae. Frogs are known to be a paratenic host of A. cantonensis, but have never been reported as the infectious source of human angiostrongyliasis in Taiwan. We report the first case of eosinophilic meningitis caused by A. cantonensis after ingestion of raw frogs (Rana plancyi).

Received October 2, 2006. Accepted for publication October 26, 2006.

* Address correspondence to Hsi-Hsun Lin, Department of Infectious Disease, E-Da Hospital/I-Shou University, 1 E-Da Road, Jiau-Shu Tsuen, Yan-Chau Shiang, Kaohsiung County, 824 Taiwan, Republic of China. E-mail: ed100233{at}edah.org.tw

Authors’ addresses: Chung-Hsu Lai, Chuen Chin, Hsing-Chun Chung, and Hsi-Hsun Lin, Department of Infectious Disease, E-Da Hospital/I-Shou University, 1 E-Da Road, Jiau-Shu Tsuen, Yan-Chau Shiang, Kaohsiung County, 824 Taiwan, Republic of China, Telephone: 886-7-615-0011-5558, Fax: 886-7-615-0960, E-mails: laich6363{at}yahoo.com.tw, ed101193{at}edah.org.tw, ed102749{at}edah.org.tw, and ed100233{at}edah.org.tw. Chuan-Min Yen, Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, College of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, No 100, Shih-Chuan 1st Road, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Republic of China, Telephone 886-7-3121101-2169, Fax: 886-7-3218309, E-mail: chmiye{at}cc.kmu.edu.tw. Hung-Chang Kuo, Department of Neurology, E-Da Hospital/I-Shou University, 1 E-Da Road, Jiau-Shu Tsuen, Yan-Chau Shiang, Kaohsiung County, 824 Taiwan, Republic of China, Telephone: 886-7-615-0011, Fax: 886-7-615-0960, E-mail: ed100256{at}edah.org.tw.






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