Successful culture of Acanthamoeba remains a key towards diagnosis of unusual clinical presentation of keratitis: A first case report from chhattisgarh

A fifty-nine-year-old female with corneal ulcer with a history of trauma in the past having clinical presentation of fungal keratitis visited the Ophthalmology outpatient department with a history of redness, watering, pain and white discoloration of the right eye cornea for two months. Sample was c...

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Autores principales: Wankhade, Archana B., Patro, Priyadarshini, Mishra, Neeta, Das, Padma
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2021
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8653448/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34934700
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_369_21
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author Wankhade, Archana B.
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Das, Padma
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description A fifty-nine-year-old female with corneal ulcer with a history of trauma in the past having clinical presentation of fungal keratitis visited the Ophthalmology outpatient department with a history of redness, watering, pain and white discoloration of the right eye cornea for two months. Sample was cultured on non-nutrient agar medium and revealed Acanthamoeba. Patient was managed with Chlorhexidine eye drop and keratoplasty.
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spelling pubmed-86534482021-12-20 Successful culture of Acanthamoeba remains a key towards diagnosis of unusual clinical presentation of keratitis: A first case report from chhattisgarh Wankhade, Archana B. Patro, Priyadarshini Mishra, Neeta Das, Padma J Family Med Prim Care Case Report A fifty-nine-year-old female with corneal ulcer with a history of trauma in the past having clinical presentation of fungal keratitis visited the Ophthalmology outpatient department with a history of redness, watering, pain and white discoloration of the right eye cornea for two months. Sample was cultured on non-nutrient agar medium and revealed Acanthamoeba. Patient was managed with Chlorhexidine eye drop and keratoplasty. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2021-10 2021-11-05 /pmc/articles/PMC8653448/ /pubmed/34934700 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_369_21 Text en Copyright: © 2021 Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
spellingShingle Case Report
Wankhade, Archana B.
Patro, Priyadarshini
Mishra, Neeta
Das, Padma
Successful culture of Acanthamoeba remains a key towards diagnosis of unusual clinical presentation of keratitis: A first case report from chhattisgarh
title Successful culture of Acanthamoeba remains a key towards diagnosis of unusual clinical presentation of keratitis: A first case report from chhattisgarh
title_full Successful culture of Acanthamoeba remains a key towards diagnosis of unusual clinical presentation of keratitis: A first case report from chhattisgarh
title_fullStr Successful culture of Acanthamoeba remains a key towards diagnosis of unusual clinical presentation of keratitis: A first case report from chhattisgarh
title_full_unstemmed Successful culture of Acanthamoeba remains a key towards diagnosis of unusual clinical presentation of keratitis: A first case report from chhattisgarh
title_short Successful culture of Acanthamoeba remains a key towards diagnosis of unusual clinical presentation of keratitis: A first case report from chhattisgarh
title_sort successful culture of acanthamoeba remains a key towards diagnosis of unusual clinical presentation of keratitis: a first case report from chhattisgarh
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8653448/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34934700
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_369_21
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