Volume 10, Number 10—October 2004
Dispatch
Fatal Naegleria fowleri Meningoencephalitis, Italy
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Figure 2. Identification of Naegleria fowleri in the brain specimen from the Italian child by polymerase chain reaction analysis of the internal transcribed spacer of the rRNA gene. Lane 1: DNA from infected brain of the patient; lane 2: DNA from CDC:V236 culture, a positive control for N. fowleri.