Fatal Disseminated Acanthamoeba lenticulata Acanthamebiasis in a Heart Transplant Patient

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• Alternative Title:
  Emerg Infect Dis
• Personal Author:
  Barete, Stéphane ; Combes, Alain ; de Jonckheere, Johan F. ; Datry, Annick ; Varnous, Shaïda ; Martinez, Valérie ; Ptacek, Sara García ; Caumes, Eric ; Capron, Frédérique ; Francès, Camille ; Gibert, Claude ; Chosidow, Olivier
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• Description:
  We report a fatal case of disseminated acanthamebiasis caused by Acanthamoeba lenticulata (genotype T5) in a 39-year-old heart transplant recipient. The diagnosis was based on skin histopathologic results and confirmed by isolation of the ameba from involved skin and molecular analysis of a partial 18S rRNA gene sequence (DF3).
• Subjects:
  • Dispatch
  • Heart transplantation
  • skin disease
  • infectious
  • skin ulcer
  • protozoan infections
  • Acanthamoeba
  • 18S ribosomal RNA
  • dispatch
  • Adult
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• Source:
  Emerg Infect Dis. 13(5):736-738.
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Volume:
  13
• Issue:
  5
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/16595/cdc_16595_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 188.21 KB]
• Collection(s):
  Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:6289a095efba150a43897fb9dbbc90da159f0c5e1ed7535e20286e01fdc943f6