Acanthamoeba on Sabouraud's agar from a patient with keratitis

A 25-year-old transgender patient came with complaints of watery discharge, red eye and photophobia in the left eye since 2 days. The patient had a history of wearing colored contact lenses since 4 years and cleaning the lens with tap water. Culture of lenses on Mac Conkey and blood agar yielded Kle...

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Autores principales: Baradkar, Vasant, Samal, Badhuli, Mali, Swapna A, Kulkarni, Ketaki, Shastri, Jayanthi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2011
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3593493/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23508061
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2229-5070.86969
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author Baradkar, Vasant
Samal, Badhuli
Mali, Swapna A
Kulkarni, Ketaki
Shastri, Jayanthi
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description A 25-year-old transgender patient came with complaints of watery discharge, red eye and photophobia in the left eye since 2 days. The patient had a history of wearing colored contact lenses since 4 years and cleaning the lens with tap water. Culture of lenses on Mac Conkey and blood agar yielded Klebsiella pneumoniae and Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Sabouroud's agar showed yeast cells and double-walled cysts of Acanthamoeba species. On further incubation of Sabouroud's agar, the cysts transformed to trophozoites. Parallel results were obtained on tap water agar. The previous therapy of moxifloxacin was changed to local Neosporin application.
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spelling pubmed-35934932013-03-18 Acanthamoeba on Sabouraud's agar from a patient with keratitis Baradkar, Vasant Samal, Badhuli Mali, Swapna A Kulkarni, Ketaki Shastri, Jayanthi Trop Parasitol Case Report A 25-year-old transgender patient came with complaints of watery discharge, red eye and photophobia in the left eye since 2 days. The patient had a history of wearing colored contact lenses since 4 years and cleaning the lens with tap water. Culture of lenses on Mac Conkey and blood agar yielded Klebsiella pneumoniae and Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Sabouroud's agar showed yeast cells and double-walled cysts of Acanthamoeba species. On further incubation of Sabouroud's agar, the cysts transformed to trophozoites. Parallel results were obtained on tap water agar. The previous therapy of moxifloxacin was changed to local Neosporin application. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2011 /pmc/articles/PMC3593493/ /pubmed/23508061 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2229-5070.86969 Text en Copyright: © Tropical Parasitology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_fullStr Acanthamoeba on Sabouraud's agar from a patient with keratitis
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title_short Acanthamoeba on Sabouraud's agar from a patient with keratitis
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3593493/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23508061
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