Chagasic meningoencephalitis: case report of a recently included AIDS-defining illness in Brazil Meningoencefalite chagásica: relato de caso de doença recentemente incluida como indicativa de AIDS no Brasil

• Published in: Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo
• Main Authors: Geraldine Madalosso, Alessandra C. Guedes Pellini, Marileide J. Vasconcelos, Ana Freitas Ribeiro, Leonardo Weissmann, Gilberto Silva Oliveira Filho, Augusto C. Penalva de Oliveira, Jose E. Vidal
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade de São Paulo (USP) 2004
• Subjects: Chagas disease; Meningoencephalitis; Central nervous system; Epidemiology; Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome; Brazil; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Infectious and parasitic diseases; RC109-216; Aguda; Arctic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1590/S0036-46652004000400005; https://doaj.org/article/212d3425598e48c1a7900857d8d0ebb8

Recently, reactivation of Chagas disease (meningoencephalitis and/or myocarditis) was included in the list of AIDS-defining illnesses in Brazil. We report a case of a 52-year-old patient with no history of previous disease who presented acute meningoencephalitis. Direct examination of blood and cere...