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The relationship between environmental sources and the susceptibility of Acanthamoeba keratitis in the United Kingdom

PURPOSE: To determine whether Acanthamoeba keratitis (AK) patients have higher rates of Acanthamoeba and free-living amoeba (FLA) colonising domestic sinks than control contact lens (CL) wearers, and whether these isolates are genetically similar to the corneal isolates from their CL associated AK....

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Autores principales: Carnt, Nicole A., Subedi, Dinesh, Connor, Sophie, Kilvington, Simon
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7065798/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32160218
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0229681