Acanthamoeba Encephalitis in Patient with Systemic Lupus, India

We report a fatal case of encephalitis caused by Acanthamoeba in a 24-year-old woman from India with systemic lupus erythematosus. Diagnosis was made by identification of amebas in brain sections by immunofluorescence analysis and confirmed by demonstrating Acanthamoeba mitochondrial 16S rRNA gene D...

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Autores principales: Shirwadkar, Charudatt G., Samant, Rohini, Sankhe, Milind, Deshpande, Ramesh, Yagi, Shigeo, Schuster, Frederick L., Sriram, Rama, Visvesvara, Govinda S.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2006
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3373031/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16707057
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid1206.060087
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Sumario:We report a fatal case of encephalitis caused by Acanthamoeba in a 24-year-old woman from India with systemic lupus erythematosus. Diagnosis was made by identification of amebas in brain sections by immunofluorescence analysis and confirmed by demonstrating Acanthamoeba mitochondrial 16S rRNA gene DNA in brain tissue sections.

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