creators_name: Sharma, A creators_name: Raina, R creators_name: Jaret, P creators_name: Bharti, V creators_name: Gargi, G creators_name: Panda, P creators_id: prashantpanda85@gmail.com editors_name: Kakkilaya, Srinivas editors_id: BS Kakkilaya type: journale datestamp: 2011-12-28 02:57:01 lastmod: 2011-12-28 02:57:01 metadata_visibility: show title: Primary Amoebic (Naegleria fowleri) Meningoencephalitis Presenting as Status Epilepticus ispublished: pub subjects: OJHAS full_text_status: public keywords: Primary amebic meningoencephalitis; Naegleria fowleri; Status epilepticus abstract: Primary amebic meningoencephalitis (PAM) is a rare entity. Usual presenting features are fever, headache and seizures with meningeal signs and this disease carries high mortality rate. We present a case report of PAM presenting as status epilepticus. date: 2011-04-15 date_type: published publication: Online Journal of Health and Allied Sciences volume: 10 number: 1 publisher: BS Kakkilaya refereed: TRUE referencetext: 1. Brown RL. Successful treatment of primary amebic meningoencephalitis (PAM). Arch Intern Med 1991;151:1201-1202 2. Jain R, Prabhakar S, Modi M, Bhatia R, Sehgal R. Naegleria meningitis: a rare survival. Neurol India 2002;50:470-472. 3. Martinez AJ. Free living amoebas: Infection of the central nervous system. Mt Sinai J Med 1993;60:271-278. 4. Shamsizadeh A, Zaker N, Maraghi S, Momen A. A Primary Amebic Meningoencephalitis. Pak J Med Sci 2006;22:471-473. 5. Tungikar SL , Kulkarni AG, Deshpande AD, Gosavi VS. Primary Amebic Meningoencephalitis. JAPI 2006;54:327-329. 6. Rodriguez R, Mendez O, Molina O, Luzardo G. CNS infection by free living amebasc Report of 3 Venezuelan cases. J Rev Neurol 1998;26:1005-1008. 7. Garcia TJ, Sotolongo GF, Cepero NF, Ibarra SE, Garcia OJ. Primary amebic meningoencephalitis. Report of suspicious case and review of the medical literature. Rev Cubana Med Trop. Sep-Dec 1978;30(3):161-166. 8. Jain R, Prabhakar S, Modi M, Bhatia R, Sehgal R. Naegleria meningitis: a rare Survival. Neurol India 2002;50:470-472. 9. Singh SN, Patwari AK, Dutta R, Taneja N, Anand VK. Naegleria meningitis. Ind Pediatr 1998;35:1012-1015. citation: Sharma, A and Raina, R and Jaret, P and Bharti, V and Gargi, G and Panda, P (2011) Primary Amoebic (Naegleria fowleri) Meningoencephalitis Presenting as Status Epilepticus. [Journal (On-line/Unpaginated)] document_url: http://cogprints.org/7836/1/2011-1-22.pdf