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Combined Amoebicidal Effect of Atorvastatin and Commercial Eye Drops against Acanthamoeba castellanii Neff: In Vitro Assay Based on Mixture Design

, 2020
The establishment of an effective therapeutic agent against Acanthamoeba keratitis (AK), remains until present, an issue to be solved due to the existence of a cyst stage in the life cycle of Acanthamoeba.
Ines Sifaoui, José E. Piñero, María Reyes-Batlle, Rubén L. Rodríguez-Expósito, Jacob Lorenzo-Morales, Eulalia Capote Yanes   +5 more
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Anti-Acanthamoeba Activity of Brominated Sesquiterpenes from Laurencia johnstonii

Marine Drugs, 2018
Focused on our interest to develop novel antiparasistic agents, the present study was aimed to evaluate the biological activity of an extract of Laurencia johnstonii collected in Baja California Sur, Mexico, against an Acantamoeba castellanii Neff strain.
Sara García-Davis, Ines Sifaoui, María Reyes-Batlle, Ezequiel Viveros-Valdez, José E. Piñero, Jacob Lorenzo-Morales, José J. Fernández, Ana R. Díaz-Marrero   +7 more
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Amoebicidal Effects of Three Bacteriocin like Substances from Lactic Acid Bacteria against Acanthamoeba Polyphaga [PDF]

, 2014
We investigated the antiamoebic activity of three Bacteriocin Like Substances (BLS 39, BLS GS 54, BLS GS 16) produced by Lactic Acid Bacteria (LAB).
ANACARSO, Immacolata, DE NIEDERHAUSERN, Simona, CONDO', CARLA, BONDI, Moreno, MESSI, Patrizia   +4 more
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Screening of the in vitro amoebicidal activities of Pastinaca armenea (Fisch. & C.A.Mey.) and Inula oculus-christi (L.) on Acanthamoeba castellanii cysts and trophozoites

, 2011
The aim of this study is to evaluate the in vitro amoebicidal activity of the aqueous extracts of Pastinaca armenea and Inula oculus-christi from Turkey.
Serpil Degerli, TEPE, Bektaş, BERK, ŞEYDA, MALATYALI, ERDOĞAN, DEĞERLİ, SERPİL, Seyda Berk, Erdogan Malatyali, Bektas Tepe   +7 more
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Amoebicidal effect of synthetic indoles against <i>Acanthamoeba</i> spp.: a study of cell death. [PDF]

Antimicrob Agents Chemother
Organic and synthetic chemistry plays a crucial role in drug discovery fields. Moreover, chemical modifications of available molecules to enhance their efficacy, selectivity and safety have been considered as an attractive approach for the development of
Sifaoui I, Rodríguez-Expósito RL, Reyes-Batlle M, Dumpiérrez Ramos A, Diana-Rivero R, García-Tellado F, Tejedor D, Piñero JE, Lorenzo-Morales J.   +8 more
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In vitro amoebicidal activity of four Allium species on Acanthamoeba castellanii and their cytotoxic potentials on corneal cells

, 2007
Amoebic keratitis is difficult to treat without total efficacy in some patients because of cysts, which is less susceptible than trophozoites to the usual treatments.
Vural A., Cetin A., Polat Z.A., Tepe B.
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The Potential Amoebicidal Effect of Some Milk forms as an Inhibitor for Entamoeba histolytica Viability Isolated from Diarrhea

, 2023
Milk includes numerous compounds such as lacto-peroxidase, lactoferrin, immunoglobulin G, secretory immunoglobulin A, and Lysozymes The invasive trophozoites of E.
Obaid, Hiro Mohammed, Kamal, Khadeja Azgar, Mohammed, Israa A.   +2 more
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n vitro study of antiamoebic effect of methanol extract of mature seeds of Carica papaya on trophozoites of Entamoeba histolytica

Bangladesh Journal of Pharmacology, 2010
Antiamoebic activity of methanol extract of mature seeds of Carica papaya was tested in vitro on axenic culture of Entamoeba histolytica using metronidazole as a reference amoebicidal agent.
Sujit Kumar Sarker, Nilufar Begum, Dinesh Mondal, Md. Abdullah Siddique, Mohammad A. Rashid
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The anti-amoebic potential of carboxamide derivatives containing sulfonyl or sulfamoyl moieties against brain-eating Naegleria fowleri

, 2023
Naegleria fowleri is a free-living thermophilic flagellate amoeba that causes a rare but life-threatening infection called primary amoebic meningoencephalitis (PAM), with a very high fatality rate.
Alawfi, Bader S., Siddiqui, Ruqaiyyah; id_orcid, Seyed-Omar Zaraei, Bader S. Alawfi, Ruqaiyyah Siddiqui, Zaraei, Seyed-Omar, Khan, Naveed Ahmed, Akbar, Noor, El-Gamal, Mohammed I., Noor Akbar, Mohammed I. El-Gamal, Naveed Ahmed Khan   +11 more
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Potential anti-amoebic effects of synthetic 1,4-benzothiazine derivatives against Acanthamoeba castellanii

Heliyon
A rare but lethal central nervous system disease known as granulomatous amoebic encephalitis (GAE) and potentially blinding Acanthamoeba keratitis are diseases caused by free-living Acanthamoeba.
Alishba, Usman Ahmed, Muhammad Taha, Naveed Ahmed Khan, Uzma Salar, Khalid Mohammed Khan, Ayaz Anwar, Ruqaiyyah Siddiqui   +7 more
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