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

Publisher's site:

http://dx.doi.org/ New Site Icon

Source:

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

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Personal Authors:

Shirwadkar, Charudatt G. ; Samant, Rohini ; Sankhe, Milind ; Deshpande, Ramesh ; Yagi, Shigeo ; ... More ▼

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Document Type:

Journal Article

Collection(s):

CDC Public Access
Emerging Infectious Diseases

Description:

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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