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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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Clinical and histologic evaluations of experimental Acanthamoeba keratitis

, 2007
Amoebic keratitis, a sight-threatening, progressive corneal disease, is commonly caused by ubiquitous, pathogenic, free-living Acanthamoeba spp., which are widely distributed in the environment.
Yildiz, Esin, Vural, Ayse, Polat, ZÜBEYDA, Ozcelik, Semra, Cetin, Ali, Polat, Zubeyde Akin   +5 more
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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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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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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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Acanthamoeba keratitis and contact lens disinfecting solutions

, 2006
Objectives: To report cases of culture-proved Acanthamoeba keratitis in Greece over a 10-year period and to evaluate the effectiveness of the commonly used commercial contact lens disinfecting systems in clinical cases of Acanthamoeba keratitis. Material
Miltsakakis, D., Ganteris, G., Dolapsaki, E., Tzanetou, K., Malamou-Lada, E., Mallias, I., Droutsas, D., Alimisi, S., Markomichelakis, N., Petropoulou, D.   +9 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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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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Risk factors and clinical signs of severe Acanthamoeba keratitis

, 2018
Machiko Shimmura-Tomita, Hiroko Takano, Nozomi Kinoshita, Fumihiko Toyoda, Yoshiaki Tanaka, Rina Takagi, Mina Kobayashi, Akihiro Kakehashi Department of Ophthalmology, Saitama Medical Center, Jichi Medical University, Saitama, Japan Purpose: To ...
Tanaka Y, Kakehashi A, Shimmura-Tomita M, Takagi R, Takano H, Kinoshita N, Kobayashi M, Toyoda F   +7 more
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