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Acanthamoeba keratitis.

Journal of postgraduate medicine, 2000
Acanthamoeba keratitis, common in soft lens wearers, is not commonly isolated. The reports of Acanthamoeba keratitis in Indian literature are few. We report here a case of Acanthamoeba Keratitis in a medical student using soft contact lenses, initially diagnosed and treated as a bacterial and later as a viral corneal ulcer, who responded extremely well
A D, Nicholson, S, Motwane, A, Gogate
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The Orphan Drug for Acanthamoeba Keratitis (ODAK) trial: PHMB (polihexanide) 0.08% and placebo versus PHMB 0.02% and propamidine 0.1.

Ophthalmology (Rochester, Minn.), 2023
John K. Dart, Vincenzo Papa, Paolo Rama, K. Knutsson, Saj Ahmad, Scott Hau, Sara Sanchez, Antonella Franch, F. Birattari, Pia Leon, A. Fasolo, Ewa Mrukwa Kominek, Katarzyna Jadczyk-Sorek, Fiona Carley, Parwez Hossain, D. Minassian   +15 more
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Comparative genomic analysis of Acanthamoeba from different sources and horizontal transfer events of antimicrobial resistance genes

mSphere
Acanthamoeba species are among the most common free-living amoeba and ubiquitous protozoa, mainly distributed in water and soil, and cause Acanthamoeba keratitis (AK) and severe visual impairment in patients.
Xinyi Ling, Xiaobin Gu, Yue Shen, Chunyan Fu, Yumei Zhou, Yiling Yin, Yanqiu Gao, Yiwei Zhu, Yongliang Lou, Meiqin Zheng   +9 more
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[Amebic keratitis-keratitis acanthamoeba].

Klinika oczna, 1995
In seventeen patients who suffered of corneal ulcer, and were negative in bacteriological and mycological examinations, parasitological tests were performed between 1990-1992. Acanthamoeba keratitis was diagnosed in one patient with characteristic corneal changes of right eye following trauma. The patient was not a contact lens wearer. The amoeba found
R, Gieryng, M, Prost, H, Gieryng, T, Mazur, W, Kasprzak   +4 more
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Torn from the headlines: role of public awareness and bench- to-bedside research in prevention and treatment of Acanthamoeba keratitis [PDF]

, 2018
Abdul Mannan Baig
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The possibility of Differentiation Acanthamoeba Strains from the Infected Cornea by EcoR1 Enzyme

پزشکی بالینی ابن سینا, 2000
Acanthamoeba keratitis is increasingly being diagnosed among people who wear thrapeutic and cosmetic contact lenses. The chain of events is thought to begin with contamination of the contact lens storage cases with Acanthamoeba from household or mains ...
Siavash Sadeghian
doaj  

A case of radial keratoneuritis in non-Acanthamoeba keratitis

Clinical Ophthalmology, 2012
Tetsuya Mutoh, Yukihiro Matsumoto, Makoto ChikudaDepartment of Ophthalmology, Dokkyo Medical University Koshigaya Hospital, Saitama, JapanAbstract: A case of non-Acanthamoeba keratitis with radial keratoneuritis, which is thought to be pathognomonic for ...
Mutoh T, Matsumoto Y, Chikuda M
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SLAMF7/STAT6 Pathway Inhibit Innate Immune Response in Late-Stage Human Acanthamoeba Keratitis: A Comparative Transcriptome Analysis

, 2023
Zhenyu Wei, Yuheng Zhang, Qiankun Chen, Xizhan Xu, Zhiqiang Pan, Zi‐Bing Jin, Qingfeng Liang   +6 more
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Oxford Nanopore Technology-Based Identification of an Acanthamoeba castellanii Endosymbiosis in Microbial Keratitis

Microorganisms
(1) Background: Microbial keratitis is a serious eye infection that carries a significant risk of vision loss. Acanthamoeba spp. are known to cause keratitis and their bacterial endosymbionts can increase virulence and/or treatment resistance and thus ...
Sebastian Alexander Scharf, Lennart Friedrichs, Robert Bock, Maria Borrelli, Colin MacKenzie, Klaus Pfeffer, Birgit Henrich   +6 more
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Risk factors, management, and outcomes of Acanthamoeba keratitis: A retrospective analysis of 110 cases

American Journal of Ophthalmology Case Reports, 2022
Brittni A Scruggs, Tyler S. Quist, M. Zimmerman, Jorge L. Salinas, M. Greiner   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source