Acanthamoeba Encephalitis in Patient with Systemic Lupus, India

Shirwadkar, Charudatt G.; Samant, Rohini; Sankhe, Milind; Deshpande, Ramesh; Yagi, Shigeo; Schuster, Frederick L.; Sriram, Rama; Visvesvara, Govinda S.

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Acanthamoeba Encephalitis in Patient with Systemic Lupus, India

Published Date:

Jun 2006

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Emerg Infect Dis. 12(6):984-986.

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We report a fatal case of encephalitis caused by Acanthamoeba in a 24-year-old woman from India with systemic lupus erythematosus. Diagnosis was made by identification of amebas in brain sections by immunofluorescence analysis and confirmed by demonstrating Acanthamoeba mitochondrial 16S rRNA gene DNA in brain tissue sections.

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