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Acanthamoeba Keratitis

Gurnani B, Ronquillo Y, Moshirfar M.
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Can Acanthamoeba keratitis be properly diagnosed without culture in the real-world clinical microbiology laboratory?: a case report

Annals of Clinical Microbiology
Acanthamoeba species are ubiquitous, free-living organisms found in the environment. They can cause a sight-threatening cornea disease, termed Acanthamoeba keratitis, and are often misdiagnosed, causing delayed administration of the correct treatment ...
Bosung Park, Ho Seok Chung, Eun Jeong Won, Heungsup Sung, Mi-Na Kim   +4 more
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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 of acanthamoeba keratitis-A report of four cases and review of literature

Indian Journal of Ophthalmology, 1990
Acanthamoeba keratitis is not reported often in India. We reported the first case diagnosed in this country a year back. In this communication, four more cases of Acanthamoeba keratitis diagnosed since then are being reported along with a brief review of
Sharma Savitri, Srinivasan M, George Celine   +2 more
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First Record of Keratitis Caused by Valkampfia in Iraq

مجلة بغداد للعلوم
Acanthamoeba is the most well-known causes amoebic keratitis. However, other free-living amoebas (FLA), such as Valkampfia, can also causes of keratitis.
Turkan K. Karyagdi
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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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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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Contact lens associated microbial keratitis: practical considerations for the optometrist

Clinical Optometry, 2016
Aaron B Zimmerman, Alex D Nixon, Erin M Rueff College of Optometry, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USAAbstract: Microbial keratitis (MK) is a corneal condition that encompasses several different pathogens and etiologies.
Zimmerman AB, Nixon AD, Rueff EM
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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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Species Identification of Acanthamoeba Strains Isolated from Patients Referring to Farabi Eye Reference Center Using PCR-RFLP Method

Journal of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, 2014
Introduction: Acanthamoeba is an opportunistic protist, which is ubiquitously distributed in the environment. Infection with Acanthamoeba spp. poses threat to human health, such as, Acanthamoeba keratitis (AK) that is a vision-threatening infection of ...
Mir Mostafa Ghamilouie, Zarrintaj Valadkhani, Fariba Khoshzaban   +2 more
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