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Evaluation of antigen detection and polymerase chain reaction for diagnosis of amoebic liver abscess in patients on anti-amoebic treatment

BMC Research Notes, 2012
Background Diagnosis of amoebic liver abscess (ALA) in patients on anti-amoebic drugs is difficult. There is scanty data on this issue using Entamoeba histolytica (E. histolytica) lectin antigen and polymerase chain reaction (PCR).
Jaiswal Virendra, Ghoshal Ujjala, Baijal Sanjay S, Mittal Balraj, Dhole Tapan N, Ghoshal Uday C   +5 more
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Silver Nanoparticles Conjugated with Contact Lens Solutions May Reduce the Risk of Acanthamoeba Keratitis

Pathogens, 2021
Acanthamoeba keratitis (AK), a severe sight-threatening corneal infection, has become a significant medical problem, especially among contact lens wearers.
Edyta B. Hendiger, Marcin Padzik, Inés Sifaoui, María Reyes-Batlle, Atteneri López-Arencibia, Diana Zyskowska, Marta Grodzik, Anna Pietruczuk-Padzik, Jacek Hendiger, Gabriela Olędzka, Lidia Chomicz, José E. Piñero, Jacob Lorenzo-Morales   +12 more
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Selected Gut Bacteria from Water Monitor Lizard Exhibit Effects against Pathogenic Acanthamoeba castellanii Belonging to the T4 Genotype

Microorganisms, 2023
Water monitor lizards (WMLs) reside in unhygienic and challenging ecological surroundings and are routinely exposed to various pathogenic microorganisms. It is possible that their gut microbiota produces substances to counter microbial infections.
Noor Akbar, Naveed Ahmed Khan, Alexander D. Giddey, Nelson C. Soares, Ahmad M. Alharbi, Hasan Alfahemi, Ruqaiyyah Siddiqui   +6 more
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High fluence PACK-CXL as adjuvant treatment for advanced Acanthamoeba keratitis

American Journal of Ophthalmology Case Reports, 2019
Purpose: To describe the outcome of adjuvant high fluence photoactivated chromophore for infectious keratitis cross-linking (PACK-CXL) used to treat an advanced form of refractory Acanthamoeba keratitis (AK) diagnosed several months after initial ...
Mehrdad Nateghi Pettersson, Neil Lagali, Jes Mortensen, Victor Jofré, Per Fagerholm   +4 more
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Anti-amoebic effects of selected herbal extracts against Acanthamoeba species isolated from different borehole water samples from Budiriro District in Harare, Zimbabwe

Infectious Diseases and Herbal Medicine
Acanthamoeba species are the major cause of Acanthamoeba Keratitis (AK) of eyes, Acanthamoeba meningoencephalitis of the central nervous system, and fatal Granulomatous Amoebic Encephalitis (GAE) of the brain in humans.
Kudzai Fambisai, Petros Muchesa, Farisai Chidzwondo, Rumbidzai Mangoyi   +3 more
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Fatal Balamuthia mandrillaris brain infection associated with improper nasal lavage

International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2018
We report the case of a 69-year-old female who presented with a chronic nasal skin rash, new onset focal seizure, and a cerebral ring-enhancing lesion after a year of improper nasal irrigation.
Keenan J. Piper, Haidn Foster, Daniel Susanto, Cynthia L. Maree, Sean D. Thornton, Charles S. Cobbs   +5 more
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"Study of Antiamoebic Antibody in Amoebiasis Using ELISA and RID Techniques" [PDF]

Iranian Journal of Public Health, 2003
To study the humoral immune response to Entamoeba histolytica infection, sera prepared from different cases of amoebiasis from gastroenterology ward of B.H.U hospital, including15 cases with amoebic liver abscess (ALA), 10 cases with acute amoebic ...
N Arianpour, TM Mohapatra   +1 more
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Evaluation of in vitro effect of selected contact lens solutions conjugated with nanoparticles in terms of preventive approach to public health risk generated by Acanthamoeba strains

Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine, 2019
Introduction Various Acanthamoeba species are free-living organisms widely distributed in the human environment. Amphizoic amoebae as facultative parasites may cause vision-threatening eye disease – Acanthamoeba keratitis, mostly among contact lens ...
Marcin Padzik, Edyta B. Hendiger, Agnieszka Żochowska, Jarosław Szczepaniak, Wanda Baltaza, Anna Pietruczuk-Padzik, Gabriela Olędzka, Lidia Chomicz   +7 more
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Brain-Eating Amoeba Meets Plant Defense: In Vitro and In Silico Evaluation of Malabaricones as Potent Anti-Naegleria fowleri Agents

Progress in Microbes and Molecular Biology
Naegleria fowleri (N. fowleri) is a thermophilic, free-living amoeba that causes primary amoebic meningoencephalitis (PAM), a rapidly fatal brain infection with a mortality rate exceeding 97%.
Kavitha Rajendran, Lemmuel Tayo, Marineil Gomez, Devandran Apparasamy, Haema Thevanayagam, Shealtiel William Chan, Ryan Christian Mailem, Regine Menente, Catherine Joyce Rueda, Yasodha Sivasothy, Muhamad Aqmal Othman, Usman Ahmed, Niwasini Krishna Kumar, Chris Izaak Jones, Ayaz Anwar   +14 more
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Experimental amoebiasis and the development of anti-amoebic compounds

Parasitology, 1983
In the ideal situation, the development of new amoebicides, or more accurately anti-amoebic compounds which are compounds with activity againstEntamoeba histolytica, should initially proceed with the study of parasite-specific metabolic pathways and their inhibition, followed by whole parasitein vitrostudies, experimentalin vivomodels and finally ...
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