Meningo-Encephalomyelitis Due to the Saprophagous Nematode, Micronema Deletrix

Jan Hoogstraten; W. Gerard Young

doi:10.1017/S0317167100020102

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A five-year-old boy succumbed 24 days following an unusual farm accident in which considerable manure was deposited in multiple lacerations.Death was due to an extensive meningo-encephalomyelitis caused by a nematode that is ordinarily saprophagous.

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