Acanthamoeba species from a post-covid patient with CSF rhinorrhea; a next possible post covid menace? A case report

A case of Acanthamoeba rhinorrhea in a 32 years female, who was recently recovered from COVID-19 infectionat a tertiary care institute in India. Though, there was no standard treatment protocol for management of amoebic-meningo encephalitis. The patient was managed successfully with combination ther...

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Autores principales: Keche, Archana, Chakravarty, Sharmistha, Khatoon, Shagufta, Kannauje, Pankaj, Arora, Ripu Daman
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Indian Association of Medical Microbiologists. Published by Elsevier B.V. 2023
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9561446/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36244850
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijmmb.2022.09.014
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author Keche, Archana
Chakravarty, Sharmistha
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description A case of Acanthamoeba rhinorrhea in a 32 years female, who was recently recovered from COVID-19 infectionat a tertiary care institute in India. Though, there was no standard treatment protocol for management of amoebic-meningo encephalitis. The patient was managed successfully with combination therapy of amphotericin B and miltefosine. Agents having trophicidal and cysticidal activities are used for treatment of CNS Acanthamoeba infection. COVID 19 infection, steroid therapy anddiabetes mellitus which lead to low immunitywere found to be associated contributing factors.
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spelling pubmed-95614462022-10-16 Acanthamoeba species from a post-covid patient with CSF rhinorrhea; a next possible post covid menace? A case report Keche, Archana Chakravarty, Sharmistha Khatoon, Shagufta Kannauje, Pankaj Arora, Ripu Daman Indian J Med Microbiol Case Report A case of Acanthamoeba rhinorrhea in a 32 years female, who was recently recovered from COVID-19 infectionat a tertiary care institute in India. Though, there was no standard treatment protocol for management of amoebic-meningo encephalitis. The patient was managed successfully with combination therapy of amphotericin B and miltefosine. Agents having trophicidal and cysticidal activities are used for treatment of CNS Acanthamoeba infection. COVID 19 infection, steroid therapy anddiabetes mellitus which lead to low immunitywere found to be associated contributing factors. Indian Association of Medical Microbiologists. Published by Elsevier B.V. 2023 2022-10-14 /pmc/articles/PMC9561446/ /pubmed/36244850 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijmmb.2022.09.014 Text en © 2022 Indian Association of Medical Microbiologists. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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Arora, Ripu Daman
Acanthamoeba species from a post-covid patient with CSF rhinorrhea; a next possible post covid menace? A case report
title Acanthamoeba species from a post-covid patient with CSF rhinorrhea; a next possible post covid menace? A case report
title_full Acanthamoeba species from a post-covid patient with CSF rhinorrhea; a next possible post covid menace? A case report
title_fullStr Acanthamoeba species from a post-covid patient with CSF rhinorrhea; a next possible post covid menace? A case report
title_full_unstemmed Acanthamoeba species from a post-covid patient with CSF rhinorrhea; a next possible post covid menace? A case report
title_short Acanthamoeba species from a post-covid patient with CSF rhinorrhea; a next possible post covid menace? A case report
title_sort acanthamoeba species from a post-covid patient with csf rhinorrhea; a next possible post covid menace? a case report
topic Case Report
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36244850
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijmmb.2022.09.014
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