Meningitis patients with Angiostrongylus cantonensis may present without eosinophilia in the cerebrospinal fluid in northern Vietnam

• Tomoko Hiraoka,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Clinical Medicine, Institute of Tropical Medicine (NEKKEN), Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan, Department of Clinical Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1244-2696

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• Ngo Chi Cuong,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliations Department of Clinical Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan, Department of Infectious Diseases, Bach Mai Hospital, Hanoi, Vietnam

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• Sugihiro Hamaguchi,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of General Internal Medicine, Fukushima Medical University, Fukushima, Japan

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• Mihoko Kikuchi,

  Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Immunogenetics, Institute of Tropical Medicine (NEKKEN), Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan

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• Shungo Katoh,

  Roles Data curation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Clinical Medicine, Institute of Tropical Medicine (NEKKEN), Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan, Department of Clinical Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan, Department of General Internal Medicine, Nagasaki Rosai Hospital, Nagasaki, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7719-9631

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• Le Kim Anh,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources

  Affiliation Vietnam Research Station, Institute of Tropical Medicine (NEKKEN), Nagasaki University, Hanoi, Vietnam

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• Nguyen Thi Hien Anh,

  Roles Investigation, Resources

  Affiliation National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, Hanoi, Vietnam

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• Dang Duc Anh,

  Roles Project administration, Supervision

  Affiliation National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, Hanoi, Vietnam

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• Chris Smith,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Global Health, School of Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan, Department of Clinical Research, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), London, United Kingdom

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• Haruhiko Maruyama,

  Roles Validation

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Division of Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Japan

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• Lay-Myint Yoshida,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision

  Affiliations Department of Clinical Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan, Department of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Institute of Tropical Medicine (NEKKEN), Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7567-3248

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• Do Duy Cuong,

  Roles Project administration, Resources, Supervision

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Bach Mai Hospital, Hanoi, Vietnam

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• Pham Thanh Thuy,

  Roles Supervision

  Affiliations Department of Infectious Diseases, Bach Mai Hospital, Hanoi, Vietnam, Infection Prevention and Control, The Partnership for Health Advancement in Vietnam (HAIVN), Hanoi, Vietnam

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• Koya Ariyoshi

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: kari@nagasaki-u.ac.jp

  Affiliations Department of Clinical Medicine, Institute of Tropical Medicine (NEKKEN), Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan, Department of Global Health, School of Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1468-5296

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