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Alternative Title:
Emerg Infect Dis
Publisher's site:
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid1305.061347
Personal Author:
Barete, Stéphane ; Combes, Alain ; de Jonckheere, Johan F. ; Datry, Annick ; Varnous, Shaïda ; ... More +
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 ; Less -
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).
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18S Ribosomal RNA
Acanthamoeba
Adult
Amebiasis
Animals
Dispatch
DNA, Ribosomal
Fatal Outcome
Heart Transplantation
Humans
Immunocompromised Host
Infectious
Male
Molecular Sequence Data
Protozoan Infections
Skin Disease
Skin Diseases, Parasitic
Skin Ulcer
Heart Transplantation

Source:
Emerg Infect Dis. 13(5):736-738. ;
Document Type:
Journal Article ;
Collection(s):
Emerging Infectious Diseases
Main Document Checksum:
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