First Report of Hartmannella keratitis in a Cosmetic Soft Contact Lens Wearer in Iran

BACKGROUND: Poor hygiene will provide good condition for corneal infections by opportunistic free-living amoebae (FLA) in soft contact lens wearers. In the present study an amoebic keratitis due to Hartmannella has been recognized in a 22-year-old girl with a history of improper soft contact lens us...

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Autores principales: ABEDKHOJASTEH, Hoda, NIYYATI, Maryam, RAHIMI, Firoozeh, HEIDARI, Mansour, FARNIA, Shohreh, REZAEIAN, Mostafa
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Tehran University of Medical Sciences 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3887252/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24454444
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author ABEDKHOJASTEH, Hoda
NIYYATI, Maryam
RAHIMI, Firoozeh
HEIDARI, Mansour
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NIYYATI, Maryam
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HEIDARI, Mansour
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description BACKGROUND: Poor hygiene will provide good condition for corneal infections by opportunistic free-living amoebae (FLA) in soft contact lens wearers. In the present study an amoebic keratitis due to Hartmannella has been recognized in a 22-year-old girl with a history of improper soft contact lens use. She had unilateral keratitis on her left eye. Her clinical signs were eye pain, redness, blurred vision and photophobia. The round cysts of free-living amoebae were identified in non-nutrient agar medium by light microscopy. These cysts were suspected to be Hartmannella using morphological criteria. A PCR assay has been confirmed that the round cysts were belonged to H. vermiformis.
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spelling pubmed-38872522014-01-21 First Report of Hartmannella keratitis in a Cosmetic Soft Contact Lens Wearer in Iran ABEDKHOJASTEH, Hoda NIYYATI, Maryam RAHIMI, Firoozeh HEIDARI, Mansour FARNIA, Shohreh REZAEIAN, Mostafa Iran J Parasitol Case Report BACKGROUND: Poor hygiene will provide good condition for corneal infections by opportunistic free-living amoebae (FLA) in soft contact lens wearers. In the present study an amoebic keratitis due to Hartmannella has been recognized in a 22-year-old girl with a history of improper soft contact lens use. She had unilateral keratitis on her left eye. Her clinical signs were eye pain, redness, blurred vision and photophobia. The round cysts of free-living amoebae were identified in non-nutrient agar medium by light microscopy. These cysts were suspected to be Hartmannella using morphological criteria. A PCR assay has been confirmed that the round cysts were belonged to H. vermiformis. Tehran University of Medical Sciences 2013 /pmc/articles/PMC3887252/ /pubmed/24454444 Text en © 2013 Iranian Society of Parasitology & Tehran University of Medical Sciences http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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NIYYATI, Maryam
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FARNIA, Shohreh
REZAEIAN, Mostafa
First Report of Hartmannella keratitis in a Cosmetic Soft Contact Lens Wearer in Iran
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title_short First Report of Hartmannella keratitis in a Cosmetic Soft Contact Lens Wearer in Iran
title_sort first report of hartmannella keratitis in a cosmetic soft contact lens wearer in iran
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