A case report of granulomatous amoebic encephalitis by Group 1 Acanthamoeba genotype T18 diagnosed by the combination of morphological examination and genetic analysis

BACKGROUND: The diagnosis of granulomatous amoebic encephalitis is challenging for clinicians because it is a rare and lethal disease. Previous reports have indicated that Acanthamoeba with some specific genotypes tend to cause the majority of human infections. We report a case of granulomatous amoe...

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Autores principales: Matsui, Takahiro, Maeda, Tetsuo, Kusakabe, Shinsuke, Arita, Hideyuki, Yagita, Kenji, Morii, Eiichi, Kanakura, Yuzuru
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5943995/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29747695
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13000-018-0706-z

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5943995/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29747695
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13000-018-0706-z

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