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BMC Neurology, 2021 Background Granulomatous amoebic encephalitis (GAE) is an infrequent and fatal infectious disease worldwide. Antemortem diagnosis in this condition is very difficult because clinical manifestations and neuroimaging are nonspecific. Case presentation A 60-
Shota Hirakata +15 more
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The prevalence of free-living amoebae in a South African hospital water distribution system
South African Journal of Science, 2015 The purpose of this study was to investigate the occurrence of free-living amoebae in the water system of a teaching hospital in Johannesburg (South Africa).
Petros Muchesa +2 more
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Scientific Reports, 2023 Balamuthia mandrillaris is a pathogenic protozoan that causes a rare but almost always fatal infection of the central nervous system and, in some cases, cutaneous lesions. Currently, the genomic data for this free-living amoeba include the description of
Alejandro Otero-Ruiz +6 more
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Balamuthia mandrillaris en el Perú, lesiones cutáneas, meningoencefalitis y métodos de cultivo
InfectioLas amebas de vida libre son microorganismos abundantes en el suelo y agua en todo el planeta. Algunas especies de estas amebas son capaces de causar muerte en el ser humano y animales, asi como Naegleria fowleri (N. fowleri), Acanthamoeba sp.
Alfonso Martín Cabello-Vílchez
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Subacute encephalitis in an immunocompetent patient diagnosed by next-generation sequencing
Journal of International Medical Research, 2022 Balamuthia mandrillaris is a free-living heterotrophic amoeba found in soil that causes a rare and usually fatal granulomatous amebic encephalitis. We report an immunocompetent patient infected with B.
Changbo Xu +5 more
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Amebiasis of the central nervous system: report of six cases in Peru
Revista Peruana de Medicina Experimental y Salud Pública, 2015 Six cases of amoebic encephalitis admitted to the National Institute of Neoplastic Diseases between the years 1994-2010 in Peru are reported. These cases were admitted for clinical suspicion of malignant primary brain tumor and one orbital-nasal sarcoma.
Enrique Orrego-Puelles +5 more
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Encephalomyelomeningitis Caused by Balamuthia mandrillaris: A Case Report and Literature Review
Infection and Drug Resistance, 2023 XueMei Fan,1 TianWen Chen,1 Hui Yang,1 Yue Gao,2,* Yan Chen1,* 1Department of Neurology, Affiliated Hangzhou First People’s Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, People’s Republic of China; 2Department of General ...
Fan X, Chen T, Yang H, Gao Y, Chen Y
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Recognition of Pathogenic Free-Living Amoebae in the Surface Water in Shiraz, Iran [PDF]
Journal of Health Sciences and Surveillance System, 2014 Background: There are many genera of free-living amoeba in the environment, but members of only four genera (Naegleria, Acanthamoeba, Balamuthia and Sappinia) have an association with human infection.
Behnam Mohammadi- Ghalehbin +4 more
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Emergence of Balamuthia mandrillaris meningoencephalitis in India
Indian Journal of Medical Microbiology, 2015 We report two cases of fatal chronic meningoencephalitis caused by Balamuthia mandrillaris in immunocompetent men. Diagnosis of amoebic meningoencephalitis was made ante-mortem in one case and postmortem in another by histopathological examination and confirmed by demonstration of B. mandrillaris deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) by polymerase chain reaction
S, Khurana +4 more
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Presence of rotavirus and free-living amoebae in the water supplies of Karachi, Pakistan
Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São PauloRotavirus and pathogenic free-living amoebae are causative agents of important health problems, especially for developing countries like Pakistan where the population has limited access to clean water supplies.
Farzana Abubakar Yousuf +2 more
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