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Meningo-Encephalomyelitis Due to the Saprophagous Nematode, Micronema Deletrix

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 September 2015

Jan Hoogstraten  and
W. Gerard Young
Jan Hoogstraten*
Affiliation:
Department of Pediatric Pathology, Health Sciences Center, 685 Bannatyne Avenue, Canada R3E 0W1
W. Gerard Young
Affiliation:
Department of Pediatric Pathology, Health Sciences Center, 685 Bannatyne Avenue, Canada R3E 0W1
*
The Health Sciences Center
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A five-year-old boy succumbed 24 days following an unusual farm accident in which considerable manure was deposited in multiple lacerations.Death was due to an extensive meningo-encephalomyelitis caused by a nematode that is ordinarily saprophagous.

Type
Research Article
Information
Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences , Volume 2 , Issue 2 , May 1975 , pp. 121 - 126
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Neurological Sciences Federation 1975

References

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