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.
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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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author Shirwadkar, Charudatt G.
Samant, Rohini
Sankhe, Milind
Deshpande, Ramesh
Yagi, Shigeo
Schuster, Frederick L.
Sriram, Rama
Visvesvara, Govinda S.
author_facet Shirwadkar, Charudatt G.
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description 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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spelling pubmed-33730312012-06-13 Acanthamoeba Encephalitis in Patient with Systemic Lupus, India Shirwadkar, Charudatt G. Samant, Rohini Sankhe, Milind Deshpande, Ramesh Yagi, Shigeo Schuster, Frederick L. Sriram, Rama Visvesvara, Govinda S. Emerg Infect Dis Dispatch 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. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2006-06 /pmc/articles/PMC3373031/ /pubmed/16707057 http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid1206.060087 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is a publication of the U.S. Government. This publication is in the public domain and is therefore without copyright. All text from this work may be reprinted freely. Use of these materials should be properly cited.
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Shirwadkar, Charudatt G.
Samant, Rohini
Sankhe, Milind
Deshpande, Ramesh
Yagi, Shigeo
Schuster, Frederick L.
Sriram, Rama
Visvesvara, Govinda S.
Acanthamoeba Encephalitis in Patient with Systemic Lupus, India
title Acanthamoeba Encephalitis in Patient with Systemic Lupus, India
title_full Acanthamoeba Encephalitis in Patient with Systemic Lupus, India
title_fullStr Acanthamoeba Encephalitis in Patient with Systemic Lupus, India
title_full_unstemmed Acanthamoeba Encephalitis in Patient with Systemic Lupus, India
title_short Acanthamoeba Encephalitis in Patient with Systemic Lupus, India
title_sort acanthamoeba encephalitis in patient with systemic lupus, india
topic Dispatch
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3373031/
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