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Next-Generation Sequencing for Diagnosis of Fatal Balamuthia Amoebic Encephalitis: A Case Report

Diagnostics
Background: Balamuthia mandrillaris is a free-living amoebic parasite that primarily causes rare opportunistic infections in immunocompromised hosts. Balamuthia amoebic encephalitis (BAE) is a rare yet severe parasitic infection affecting the central ...
Yuanyuan Feng, Huiyu Feng, Xuegao Yu, Jing Zhao, Hongyan Zhou, Jiaoxing Li, Peisong Chen, Li Feng   +7 more
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Discovery of cyclic peptide natural product inhibitors of Balamuthia mandrillaris

bioRxiv
Balamuthia mandrillaris is a pathogenic free-living amoeba that causes infection of central nervous system, called Balamuthia amoebic encephalitis (BAE), as well as cutaneous and systemic diseases. Patients infected with B.
Chenyang Lu, Samantha Nelson, Gabriela Coy, Christopher Neumann, Elizabeth I. Parkinson, C. Rice   +5 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 Paulo
Rotavirus 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, Ruqaiyyah Siddiqui, Naveed Ahmed Khan   +2 more
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Balamuthia mandrillaris infection [PDF]

Journal of Medical Microbiology, 2001
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PRIMARY AMOEBIC MENINGO ENCEPHALITIS- A CASE STUDY

Pakistan Armed Forces Medical Journal, 2013
Primary amoebic meningoencephalitis is caused by the small, pathogenic, free-living amoeba Naegleria Fowleri, Acanthamoeba species and Balamuthia mandrillaris. The first of these, N.
Col Naila Azam ., Azhar Hayat .
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Neurosurgical Biopsy and Resection for Diagnosis and Treatment of Balamuthia mandrillaris Amebic Encephalitis, United States

Emerging Infectious Diseases
We report a systematic case review of antemortem neurosurgical resections and biopsies and outcomes including new lesions after procedure and survival in Balamuthia mandrillaris granulomatous amebic encephalitis.
Beenish Rubbab, Ammar Adenwalla, Natasha Spottiswoode, Julia C. Haston, Sarah Firmani, Sumit Singh, Veena Rajaram, Jay Ramos, Ibne Karim M. Ali, Brett Whittemore, Natasha W. Hanners   +10 more
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Balamuthia mandrillaris [PDF]

, 2020
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Challenges and advances in the medical treatment of granulomatous amebic encephalitis

Therapeutic Advances in Infectious Disease
Granulomatous amebic encephalitis, caused by the free-living amebae Balamuthia mandrillaris or Acanthamoeba species, is a rare and deadly infectious syndrome with a current mortality rate of >90%.
Natasha Spottiswoode, Julia C. Haston, Natasha W. Hanners, Katherine Gruenberg, Annie Kim, Joseph L. DeRisi, Michael R. Wilson   +6 more
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Amebiasis del sistema nervioso central: reporte de seis casos en el Perú

Revista Peruana de Medicina Experimental y Salud Pública
Se reportan seis casos de encefalitis amebiana admitidos en el Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Neoplásicas entre los años 1994-2010 en Perú; estos casos ingresaron por sospecha clínica de tumor cerebral primario maligno y uno como sarcoma orbito-nasal.
Enrique Orrego-Puelles, Sandro Casavilca, Fausto J Rodríguez, Bobbi S Pritt, Miluska Castillo, Carlos A Castañeda   +5 more
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Balamuthia mandrillaris - a brief overview of the parasite causing encephalitis.

Microbial Pathogenesis
Balamuthia mandrillaris is a unicellular protist, known to cause infection of the central nervous system. The life cycle of B. mandrillaris is divided into vegetative, infectious trophozoites and dormant cysts. The ability of B. mandrillaris to produce a
R. Siddiqui, Z. Rizvi, Sutherland K. Maciver, N. A. Khan   +3 more
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