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Concomitant Potentially Contagious Factors Detected in Poland and Regarding Acanthamoeba Strains, Etiological Agents of Keratitis in Humans

Microorganisms
Background: Diseases in humans caused by amphizoic amoebae that can result in visual impairment and even blindness, have recently been identified more frequently worldwide.
Lidia Chomicz, Jacek P. Szaflik, Agnieszka Kuligowska, David Bruce Conn, Wanda Baltaza, Beata Szostakowska, Paweł J. Zawadzki, Monika Dybicz, Anna Machalińska, Konrad Perkowski, Anna Bajer, Jerzy Szaflik   +11 more
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Diagnosis and management of Acanthamoeba keratitis.

, 1985
Diagnosis and management of Acanthamoeba chronic ulcerative keratitis is difficult. Two cases of Acanthamoeba keratitis at Wills Eye Hospital were diagnosed within several months of each other during 1983.
Visvesvara, G S, Folberg, R, Buchanan, H W, Laughrea, P A, Cohen, E J, Arentsen, J J, Adams, C P, Laibson, P R, Galentine, P G   +8 more
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Acridine Orange Staining for Rapid Diagnosis of Acanthamoeba Keratitis

, 1998
Acanthamoeba keratitis is uncommon, but one of the most severe infectious diseases of the cornea. Delayed diagnosis or misdiagnosis as bacterial or herpes simplex keratitis leads to extensive corneal inflammation and profound visual loss.
Sah, Woo-Jin, Hahn, Tae-Won, O’Brien, Terrence P, Kim, Jae-Ho   +3 more
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Acanthamoeba keratitis with Curvularia co-infection

, 2010
We report a case of Acanthamoeba keratitis with Curvularia co-infection. Acanthamoeba and fungal co-infection have been uncommonly reported in literature, worldwide.
Dhull, C. S., Srivastava, V., Samantaray, J. C., Gupta, N., Duggal, S., Chaudhary, U.   +5 more
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Specificity of in vivo confocal cornea microscopy in Acanthamoeba keratitis

, 2018
PURPOSE: To report on the presence of 4 different structures visualized by confocal microscopy in patients whose clinical presentation suggested infection by Acanthamoeba.
Tóth Jeannette, Imre László, Nagy Zoltán Zsolt, Füst Ágnes, Simon G   +4 more
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Successful medical treatment of Acanthamoeba keratitis

, 1997
Purpose: To describe the outcome of a series of Acanthamoeba keratitis treated with a similar regimen. Methods: All cases diagnosed with Acanthamoeba keratitis in a referral centre from June 1994 through June 1997 were included. Diagnosis of Acanthamoeba
Dua, H.S., Lloyd, J.H., Sadiq, A.S., Hussain, M., Azuara-Blanco, A.; id_orcid   +4 more
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three cases of acanthamoeba keratitis (Ak) in Yazd

Majallah-i Dānishgāh-i ’Ulūm-i Pizishkī-i Shahīd Ṣadūqī Yazd, 2006
Acanthamoeba keratitis is a vision- threatening infection and the most important risk factors are contact lenses Characteristic symptoms include disproportionately severe ocular pain, epithelial ulcer, ring stromal infiltrate and resistance to ...
MR Shoja
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Acanthamoeba spp. Secrete a Mannose-Induced Protein that Correlates with Ability to Cause Acanthamoeba Keratitis

, 2004
Acanthamoeba spp. are ubiquitously distributed in the environment. The trophozoite form can infect the cornea and cause sight-threatening corneal inflammation known as Acanthamoeba keratitis.
Hurt, Michael Allen
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Ring infiltrates in Pythium keratitis

Oman Journal of Ophthalmology
This study highlights the clinical presentation of ring infiltrates (RI) in Pythium keratitis, typically associated with fungal or Acanthamoeba keratitis, emphasizing diagnostic and therapeutic challenges.
Amanjot Kaur, Amrita Mohanty, Sujata Das, Smruti Rekha Priyadarshini, Srikant Kumar Sahu   +4 more
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Design against nature

, 2003
The process of disinfecting pits technology against nature. This issue is considered through examination of the design and development of a microwave disinfecting system for contact lenses.
Crabbe, A
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