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Fatal Acanthamoeba Encephalitis in a Patient With a Total Artificial Heart (Syncardia) Device
Acanthamoeba encephalitis is an uncommon but often fatal infection complication. Here we report the first case of Acanthamoeba encephalitis in a patient with a Total Artificial Heart device.
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Oxford University Press
2014
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4281817/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25734127 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofu057 |
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| author | Tan, Susanna K. Gajurel, Kiran Tung, Christie Albers, Gregory Deresinski, Stan Montoya, Jose G. Sheikh, Ahmad Y. Banerjee, Dipanjan Ha, Richard |
| author_facet | Tan, Susanna K. Gajurel, Kiran Tung, Christie Albers, Gregory Deresinski, Stan Montoya, Jose G. Sheikh, Ahmad Y. Banerjee, Dipanjan Ha, Richard |
| author_sort | Tan, Susanna K. |
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| description | Acanthamoeba encephalitis is an uncommon but often fatal infection complication. Here we report the first case of Acanthamoeba encephalitis in a patient with a Total Artificial Heart device. |
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| spelling | pubmed-42818172015-03-02 Fatal Acanthamoeba Encephalitis in a Patient With a Total Artificial Heart (Syncardia) Device Tan, Susanna K. Gajurel, Kiran Tung, Christie Albers, Gregory Deresinski, Stan Montoya, Jose G. Sheikh, Ahmad Y. Banerjee, Dipanjan Ha, Richard Open Forum Infect Dis Brief Reports Acanthamoeba encephalitis is an uncommon but often fatal infection complication. Here we report the first case of Acanthamoeba encephalitis in a patient with a Total Artificial Heart device. Oxford University Press 2014-08-19 /pmc/articles/PMC4281817/ /pubmed/25734127 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofu057 Text en © The Author 2014. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Infectious Diseases Society of America. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial reproduction and distribution of the work, in any medium, provided the original work is not altered or transformed in any way, and that the work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com. |
| spellingShingle | Brief Reports Tan, Susanna K. Gajurel, Kiran Tung, Christie Albers, Gregory Deresinski, Stan Montoya, Jose G. Sheikh, Ahmad Y. Banerjee, Dipanjan Ha, Richard Fatal Acanthamoeba Encephalitis in a Patient With a Total Artificial Heart (Syncardia) Device |
| title | Fatal Acanthamoeba Encephalitis in a Patient With a Total Artificial Heart (Syncardia) Device |
| title_full | Fatal Acanthamoeba Encephalitis in a Patient With a Total Artificial Heart (Syncardia) Device |
| title_fullStr | Fatal Acanthamoeba Encephalitis in a Patient With a Total Artificial Heart (Syncardia) Device |
| title_full_unstemmed | Fatal Acanthamoeba Encephalitis in a Patient With a Total Artificial Heart (Syncardia) Device |
| title_short | Fatal Acanthamoeba Encephalitis in a Patient With a Total Artificial Heart (Syncardia) Device |
| title_sort | fatal acanthamoeba encephalitis in a patient with a total artificial heart (syncardia) device |
| topic | Brief Reports |
| url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4281817/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25734127 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofu057 |
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