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Am J Transplant [PDF]

A liver, heart, iliac vessel and two kidneys were recovered from a 39-year-old man who died of traumatic head injury and were transplanted into five recipients.

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Acanthamoeba Encephalitis in Patient with Systemic Lupus, India [PDF]

We report a fatal case of encephalitis caused by Acanthamoeba in a 24-year-old woman from India with systemic lupus erythematosus. Diagnosis was made by identification of amebas in brain sections by immunofluorescence analysis and confirmed by ...
Bloch, Charudatt G. Shirwadkar, Cogo, Foreman, Frederick L. Schuster, Govinda S. Visvesvara, Grunnet, Koide, Martinez, Martinez, Milind Sankhe, Rama Sriram, Ramesh Deshpande, Rohini Samant, Sangruchi, Schuster, Shigeo Yagi, Visvesvara, Yagi   +18 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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Travel Med Infect Dis [PDF]

BackgroundThe failure to consider travel-related diagnoses, the lack of diagnostic capacity for specialized laboratory testing, and the declining number of autopsies may affect the diagnosis and management of travel-related infections.

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Clinical Features, Diagnosis, and Treatment Plans of Balamuthia mandrillaris Encephalitis in Pediatrics: A Systematic Review [PDF]

Journal of Pediatrics Review
Background: Balamuthia mandrillaris is a free-living amoeba responsible for a rare but fatal microbial encephalitis in pediatric patients. Pediatric cases are extremely rare and typically present with nonspecific symptoms, leading to delayed diagnosis ...
Hoda Mehrabi, Reza Ghasemikhah
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Diagnosis of Infections Caused by Pathogenic Free-Living Amoebae

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Infectious Diseases, 2009
Naegleria fowleri, Acanthamoeba spp., Balamuthia mandrillaris, and Sappinia sp. are pathogenic free-living amoebae. N. fowleri causes Primary Amoebic Meningoencephalitis, a rapidly fatal disease of the central nervous system, while Acanthamoeba spp.
Bruno da Rocha-Azevedo, Herbert B. Tanowitz, Francine Marciano-Cabral   +2 more
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Balamuthia mandrillaris infection [PDF]

Journal of Medical Microbiology, 2001
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Evaluation and Standardization of RNA Extractions with Quality for RNA-Seq for Balamuthia mandrillaris

Parasitologia
Balamuthia mandrillaris is a free-living amoeba (FLA) that causes granulomatous amebic encephalitis (GAE) and skin lesions. Transcriptomic analysis is a powerful tool used to study B. mandrillaris pathogenic infections.
Leobardo Daniel Gonzalez-Zuñiga, Libia Zulema Rodriguez-Anaya, Jose Reyes Gonzalez-Galaviz, Abraham Cruz-Mendívil, Fernando Lares-Villa, Luis Fernando Lares-Jiménez   +5 more
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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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Encephalomyelomeningitis Caused by Balamuthia mandrillaris: A Case Report and Literature Review. [PDF]

Infect Drug Resist, 2023
Fan X, Chen T, Yang H, Gao Y, Chen Y.
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