A simple method for culturing Acanthamoeba from soft contact lens at a clinical laboratory of a hospital: Case report of Acanthamoeba keratitis

KEY CLINICAL MESSAGE: A simple culturing method for Acanthamoeba available at a clinical laboratory is a key for making timely diagnosis and starting treatment with topical 0.02% chlorhexidine gluconate eye drops, together with 0.1% miconazole or fluconazole eye drops. ABSTRACT: A 19‐year‐old woman...

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Autores principales: Matsuo, Toshihiko, Nose, Motoko
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2023
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10661332/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/38028087
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.8248
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description KEY CLINICAL MESSAGE: A simple culturing method for Acanthamoeba available at a clinical laboratory is a key for making timely diagnosis and starting treatment with topical 0.02% chlorhexidine gluconate eye drops, together with 0.1% miconazole or fluconazole eye drops. ABSTRACT: A 19‐year‐old woman with pain and injection in the right eye showed spotty corneal infiltration and radiating linear opacity. Suspicious of Acanthamoeba keratitis, corneal scraping, and the soft contact lens were sent to in‐house clinical laboratory to culture successfully Acanthamoeba on Sabouraud dextrose agar plate painted with heat‐treated dead bacilli.
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spelling pubmed-106613322023-11-20 A simple method for culturing Acanthamoeba from soft contact lens at a clinical laboratory of a hospital: Case report of Acanthamoeba keratitis Matsuo, Toshihiko Nose, Motoko Clin Case Rep Case Report KEY CLINICAL MESSAGE: A simple culturing method for Acanthamoeba available at a clinical laboratory is a key for making timely diagnosis and starting treatment with topical 0.02% chlorhexidine gluconate eye drops, together with 0.1% miconazole or fluconazole eye drops. ABSTRACT: A 19‐year‐old woman with pain and injection in the right eye showed spotty corneal infiltration and radiating linear opacity. Suspicious of Acanthamoeba keratitis, corneal scraping, and the soft contact lens were sent to in‐house clinical laboratory to culture successfully Acanthamoeba on Sabouraud dextrose agar plate painted with heat‐treated dead bacilli. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2023-11-20 /pmc/articles/PMC10661332/ /pubmed/38028087 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.8248 Text en © 2023 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes.
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title A simple method for culturing Acanthamoeba from soft contact lens at a clinical laboratory of a hospital: Case report of Acanthamoeba keratitis
title_full A simple method for culturing Acanthamoeba from soft contact lens at a clinical laboratory of a hospital: Case report of Acanthamoeba keratitis
title_fullStr A simple method for culturing Acanthamoeba from soft contact lens at a clinical laboratory of a hospital: Case report of Acanthamoeba keratitis
title_full_unstemmed A simple method for culturing Acanthamoeba from soft contact lens at a clinical laboratory of a hospital: Case report of Acanthamoeba keratitis
title_short A simple method for culturing Acanthamoeba from soft contact lens at a clinical laboratory of a hospital: Case report of Acanthamoeba keratitis
title_sort simple method for culturing acanthamoeba from soft contact lens at a clinical laboratory of a hospital: case report of acanthamoeba keratitis
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/38028087
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.8248
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