| successful treatment of amoebic meningoencephalitis in a chinese living in hong kong. | primary amoebic meningoencephalitis due to naegleria fowleri was found in a 38-year-old chinese man living in hong kong who presumably acquired the infection from swimming in a hot spring in neighbouring china. amoebic cysts were identified in tissue taken from a brain abscess. the patient responded to surgical drainage and a 6-week course of amphotericin b, rifampicin and chloramphenicol. this is one of 6 cases of successful treatment of primary amoebic meningoencephalitis documented in the med ... | 1993 | 8242970 |