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Citation |
Wang XY, Yu SL, Chen S, Zhang WH. J. Travel Med. 2016; 23(2): e018. |
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Affiliation |
Department of Infectious Diseases, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China zhangwenhong@fudan.edu.cn. |
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Copyright |
(Copyright © 2016, International Society of Travel Medicine, Publisher John Wiley and Sons) |
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26883923 |
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Abstract |
A healthy 32-year-old backpacker experienced a motorcycle accident without helmet on a country road when he was travelling in Jiangxi Province, Eastern China. He fell into a roadside ditch and aspirated some polluted water. The traveller was rescued in a local hospital. The computer tomography of the skull showed multiple fractures (Figure 1A). A month later, his temperature rose to 39.1°C, and headache got worse. He was transferred to the referral hospital and lumber puncture was performed. Analysis of the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) showed an elevated white cells count and total protein level. Magnetic resonance imaging of the head revealed enhancement and thickening of the choroid plexus in the right lateral ventricle and the leptomeninges.... Language: en |