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.

doi:10.3201/eid1206.060087

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Acanthamoeba Encephalitis in Patient with Systemic Lupus, India

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Jun 2006
By Shirwadkar, Charudatt G. ; Samant, Rohini ; Sankhe, Milind ; ...

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Emerg Infect Dis
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Shirwadkar, Charudatt G. ; Samant, Rohini ; Sankhe, Milind ; Deshpande, Ramesh ; Yagi, Shigeo ; Schuster, Frederick L. ; Sriram, Rama ; Visvesvara, Govinda S.
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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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Adult Amebiasis Animals Central Nervous System Protozoal Infections DNA, Protozoan Encephalitis Fatal Outcome Female Histocytochemistry Humans Lupus Erythematosus, Systemic Polymerase Chain Reaction
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Emerg Infect Dis. 12(6):984-986.
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Dispatch
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India
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12
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6
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Emerging Infectious Diseases
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