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Angiostrongylus cantonensis Infection from Eating Raw Snails

1995; Massachusetts Medical Society; Volume: 332; Issue: 16 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1056/nejm199504203321619

1533-4406

Daniel D. New, M. D. Little, John H. Cross,

Parasitic infections in humans and animals

To the Editor: Eosinophilic meningitis caused by Angiostrongylus cantonensis is widespread in the Pacific basin and has been reported in Cuba, Reunion, and the Ivory Coast.1 To our knowledge, however, no human infection with A. cantonensis has been reported in North America to date. We report a case of autochthonous A. cantonensis infection in a child in New Orleans. An 11-year-old boy presented to Children's Hospital in New Orleans on June 24, 1993, with myalgia (which he had had for seven days), headache, low-grade fever, vomiting (for six days), and a stiff neck (for five days). He had always lived . . .