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The amoebicidal activity of Chaerophyllum macropodum extract on Acanthamoeba genotype T4 in vitro

مجله علمی دانشگاه علوم پزشکی کردستان, 2022
Background and Aim: Acanthamoeba is an opportunistic pathogen that may cause fatal granulomatous encephalitis and ocular keratitis in humans and animals.
Tooran Nayeri, Farahnaz Bineshian, Fariba Khoshzaban, Abdolhossein Dalimi Asl, Mohammad Saaid Dayer, Fatemeh Ghaffarifar   +5 more
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Increasing incidence of Acanthamoeba keratitis in a large tertiary ophthalmology department from year 1994 to 2018

Acta ophthalmologica, 2019
Acanthamoeba (AA) keratitis is a rare and severe infection with poor prognosis. The aim was to investigate the incidence and risk factors of AA keratitis in a large tertiary ophthalmology department in Denmark.
Stine E. Nielsen, A. Ivarsen, J. Hjortdal   +2 more
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Mammalian myosin I alpha, I beta, and I gamma: new widely expressed genes of the myosin I family. [PDF]

, 1993
A polymerase chain reaction strategy was devised to identify new members of the mammalian myosin I family of actin-based motors. Using cellular RNA from mouse granular neurons and PC12 cells, we have cloned and sequenced three 1.2-kb polymerase chain ...
Greene, LA, Joyce, MP, Sherr, EH
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Diagnosis of Acanthamoeba corneal infection by impression cytology: case report [PDF]

, 2007
To describe three cases of corneal infection due to Acanthamoeba sp in which was possible to detect Acanthamoeba sp cysts by the corneal impression cytology technique.
Barros, Jeison de Nadai [UNIFESP], Foronda, Annette [UNIFESP], Lowen, Marcia Serva [UNIFESP], Martins, Maria Cristina [UNIFESP], Mascaro, Vera Lucia Degaspare [UNIFESP]   +4 more
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Isolation and genotyping of Acanthamoeba strains from corneal infections in Italy [PDF]

, 2010
Acanthamoeba keratitis (AK) is a corneal disease caused by members of a genus of free-living amoebae and is associated predominantly with contact lens (CL) use. This study reports 16 cases of culture-proven AK diagnosed in northern Italy.
Berrilli, F, Bruno, A, Carletti, S, Cavallero, A, DI CAVE, D, Gatti, S, Maserati, R, Matuska, S, Rama, P   +8 more
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Isolation of Free-living amoeba and Molecular Characterization of Acanthamoeba From Stagnant Water, Kashan, Iran

Iranian Journal of Medical Microbiology, 2018
Background and Aims: Acanthamoeba, the causative agent of granulomatous amebic encephalitis )GAE), is among the most prevalent free-living amoebas (FLA) existing in water, soil and dust. This study was conducted to determine FLA and identify Acanthamoeba
Mohammad Hossein Golestani, Sima Rasti, Hossein Hooshyar, Mahdi Delavari, Gholam Abbas Mousavi, Leila Iranshahi   +5 more
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Evaluation of Oxasqualenoids from the Red Alga Laurencia viridis against Acanthamoeba

Marine Drugs, 2019
Acanthamoeba genus is a widely distributed and opportunistic parasite with increasing importance worldwide as an emerging pathogen in the past decades. This protozoan has an active trophozoite stage, a cyst stage, and is dormant and very resistant.
J. Lorenzo-Morales, A. Díaz-Marrero, Francisco Cen-Pacheco, I. Sifaoui, M. Reyes-Batlle, M. L. Souto, Antonio Hernández Daranas, J. Piñero, J. J. Fernández   +8 more
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Anti-amoebic effects of selected herbal extracts against Acanthamoeba species isolated from different borehole water samples from Budiriro District in Harare, Zimbabwe

Infectious Diseases and Herbal Medicine
Acanthamoeba species are the major cause of Acanthamoeba Keratitis (AK) of eyes, Acanthamoeba meningoencephalitis of the central nervous system, and fatal Granulomatous Amoebic Encephalitis (GAE) of the brain in humans.
Kudzai Fambisai, Petros Muchesa, Farisai Chidzwondo, Rumbidzai Mangoyi   +3 more
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In Vitro Activity of Pentamidine Isethionate against Trophozoite and Cyst of Acanthamoeba

Iranian Journal of Parasitology, 2021
Background: Acanthamoebae are a causative agent of Acanthamoeba keratitis (AK) in immunocompetent individuals. Since access to propamidine isethionate (Brolene®) as a first-line treatment has been limited in recent years, in the current study, we ...
Massoud Behnia, Alireza Latifi, Mostafa Rezaian, Sharmin Kharazi, Mehdi Mohebali, Setayesh Yasami, Shiva Saghafi, Reza Chahardoli, Narges Anasori, Hakimeh Torkian, Mohammad Soleimani, Maryam Niyyati, Elham Kazemirad   +12 more
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Clinical presentations, genotypic diversity and phylogenetic analysis of Acanthamoeba species causing keratitis.

Journal of Medical Microbiology, 2019
Introduction. Acanthamoeba keratitis is a sight-threatening corneal infection that is commonly reported among contact lens users and those suffering from corneal trauma.
Swasthikka Roshni Prithiviraj, Siva Ganesa Karthikeyan Rajapandian, Hariharan Gnanam, Rameshkumar Gunasekaran, Ponlakshmi Mariappan, Sharma Sankalp Singh, L. Prajna   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source