Acanthamoeba keratitis: Experience from a tertiary eye care center in North India

The free-living amebae of genus Acanthamoeba are an important cause of microbial keratitis. The clinical appearance of Acanthamoeba keratitis (AK) usually mimics viral or fungal keratitis. Thus, microbiological workup plays a significant role in the diagnosis and timely treatment of such cases. We r...

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Autores principales: Ahmed, Nishat Hussain, Rathod, Prachala G., Satpathy, Gita, Tandon, Radhika, Sharma, Namrata, Titiyal, Jeewan S.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9832494/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36643983
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/tp.tp_16_22
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author Ahmed, Nishat Hussain
Rathod, Prachala G.
Satpathy, Gita
Tandon, Radhika
Sharma, Namrata
Titiyal, Jeewan S.
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description The free-living amebae of genus Acanthamoeba are an important cause of microbial keratitis. The clinical appearance of Acanthamoeba keratitis (AK) usually mimics viral or fungal keratitis. Thus, microbiological workup plays a significant role in the diagnosis and timely treatment of such cases. We report a retrospective case series of seven culture-confirmed AK cases from a tertiary eye care center in North India. Various risk factors and triggers of infection, clinical presentations, microbiological findings, and management of AK are elucidated.
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spelling pubmed-98324942023-01-12 Acanthamoeba keratitis: Experience from a tertiary eye care center in North India Ahmed, Nishat Hussain Rathod, Prachala G. Satpathy, Gita Tandon, Radhika Sharma, Namrata Titiyal, Jeewan S. Trop Parasitol Case Series The free-living amebae of genus Acanthamoeba are an important cause of microbial keratitis. The clinical appearance of Acanthamoeba keratitis (AK) usually mimics viral or fungal keratitis. Thus, microbiological workup plays a significant role in the diagnosis and timely treatment of such cases. We report a retrospective case series of seven culture-confirmed AK cases from a tertiary eye care center in North India. Various risk factors and triggers of infection, clinical presentations, microbiological findings, and management of AK are elucidated. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2022 2022-11-24 /pmc/articles/PMC9832494/ /pubmed/36643983 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/tp.tp_16_22 Text en Copyright: © 2022 Tropical Parasitology 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.
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Ahmed, Nishat Hussain
Rathod, Prachala G.
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Tandon, Radhika
Sharma, Namrata
Titiyal, Jeewan S.
Acanthamoeba keratitis: Experience from a tertiary eye care center in North India
title Acanthamoeba keratitis: Experience from a tertiary eye care center in North India
title_full Acanthamoeba keratitis: Experience from a tertiary eye care center in North India
title_fullStr Acanthamoeba keratitis: Experience from a tertiary eye care center in North India
title_full_unstemmed Acanthamoeba keratitis: Experience from a tertiary eye care center in North India
title_short Acanthamoeba keratitis: Experience from a tertiary eye care center in North India
title_sort acanthamoeba keratitis: experience from a tertiary eye care center in north india
topic Case Series
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9832494/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36643983
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/tp.tp_16_22
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