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primary amoebic meningoencephalitis.

the third case in the uk of primary amoebic meningoencephalitis is reported; it affected an 11-year-old girl. six days before admission the girl had swum in a pool fed by hot spring water in which the causative agent naegleria fowleri was found. early treatment with amphotericin b would seem to offer the only hope of recovery in this almost uniformly fatal infection.