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Alternative Title:
Emerg Infect Dis
Publisher's site:
http://dx.doi.org/
Personal Author:
Shirwadkar, Charudatt G. ; Samant, Rohini ; Sankhe, Milind ; Deshpande, Ramesh ; Yagi, Shigeo ; ... More +
Shirwadkar, Charudatt G. ; Samant, Rohini ; Sankhe, Milind ; Deshpande, Ramesh ; Yagi, Shigeo ; Schuster, Frederick L. ; Sriram, Rama ; Visvesvara, Govinda S. Less -
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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Adult
Amebiasis
Animals
Central Nervous System Protozoal Infections
Dispatch
DNA, Protozoan
Encephalitis
Fatal Outcome
Female
Histocytochemistry
Humans
Lupus Erythematosus, Systemic
Polymerase Chain Reaction

Source:
Emerg Infect Dis. 12(6):984-986.
Document Type:
Journal Article
Place as Subject:
India
Collection(s):
Emerging Infectious Diseases
Main Document Checksum:
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