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Canine amoebic meningoencephalitis due to Balamuthia mandrillaris

Veterinary Parasitology: Regional Studies and Reports, 2018
A 1-year-old Siberian Husky dog with acute-onset of seizures, recumbency, paddling, and muscular fasciculations was autopsied. A locally extensive hemorrhagic and malacic focus was noted in the right cerebral frontal cortex, and severe necrotizing and hemorrhagic, neutrophilic meningoencephalitis was diagnosed microscopically.
Rory Chia-Ching, Chien, Corbin R, Telford, Shantanu, Roy, Ibne Karim M, Ali, Wun-Ju, Shieh, Anthony W, Confer   +5 more
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Balamuthia mandrillaris meningoencephalitis in an immunocompromised patient

Journal of Neurosurgery, 2009
Balamuthia mandrillaris is a rare but increasingly recognized cause of amebic encephalitis, yet it remains poorly understood. The condition is almost universally fatal, and due to diagnostic difficulty, most cases are identified postmortem. The authors report a case of Balamuthia amebic encephalitis in a patient with combined variable immunodeficiency ...
Akash P, Kansagra, Jayant P, Menon, Chester K, Yarbrough, Klaudia, Urbaniak, J Dawn, Waters, Ewa, Borys, Rahul, Jandial   +6 more
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Immunogens in Balamuthia mandrillaris: a proteomic exploration

Parasitology Research
Balamuthia mandrillaris is the causative agent of granulomatous amoebic encephalitis, a rare and often fatal infection affecting the central nervous system. The amoeba is isolated from diverse environmental sources and can cause severe infections in both immunocompromised and immunocompetent individuals.
Rosalía, Alfaro-Sifuentes, Luis Fernando, Lares-Jiménez, Saul, Rojas-Hernández, María Maricela, Carrasco-Yépez, Diego Alexander, Rojas-Ortega, Libia Zulema, Rodriguez-Anaya, Jose Reyes, Gonzalez-Galaviz, Fernando, Lares-Villa   +7 more
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Balamuthia mandrillaris: its Pathogenic Potential

Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology, 2001
In 1958, Clyde G. Culbertson predicted the occurrence in humans of infection by free-living amebas (6). A few years later, Rodney F. Carter and Malcolm Fowler, in Adelaide, Australia, reported the first human cases of primary amebic meningoencephalitis (PAM) caused by Naegleria fowleri [2, 91.
A J, Martínez, F L, Schuster, G S, Visvesvara   +2 more
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Fatal granulomatous amoebic meningoencephalitis due to Balamuthia mandrillaris

Pathology - Research and Practice, 2008
Amoebic infections of the central nervous system (CNS) are very rare and usually fatal. A 33-year-old Bolivian male injured his elbow 18 months ago in an accident and, months later, developed multiple skin lesions. He was admitted with confusion, and brain images showed large multifocal lesions with mass effect.
Istvan, Bodi, Neelanjana, Dutt, Timothy, Hampton, Nuzhat, Akbar   +3 more
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BALAMUTHIA MANDRILLARIS MENINGOENCEPHALITIS: THE FIRST CASE IN SOUTHEAST ASIA

The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2004
We present a case of 23-year-old man with acute meningoencephalitis, accompanied by inflammation of a nasal ulcer. He had been healthy until six months prior to admission to the hospital when he had a motorcycle accident. A star-shaped wound at his nose was incurred after falling into a swamp.
Poj, Intalapaporn, Chusana, Suankratay, Shanop, Shuangshoti, Kammant, Phantumchinda, Somboon, Keelawat, Henry, Wilde   +5 more
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Balamuthia Mandrillaris Amoebic Encephalitis: An Emerging Parasitic Infection

Current Infectious Disease Reports, 2012
Balamuthia mandrillaris is a free living amoeba that can be isolated from soil. It is an emerging pathogen causing skin lesions as well as CNS involvement with a fatal outcome if untreated. The infection has been described more commonly in inmunocompetent individuals, mostly males, many children, and with a predilection for population with Hispanic ...
Bravo Puccio, Francisco Gerardo, Seas Ramos, Carlos Rafael   +1 more
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Novel culture medium for the axenic growth of Balamuthia mandrillaris

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease, 2015
Until now, for axenic cultivation of Balamuthia mandrillaris, the BM-3 culture medium and the Modified Chang's special medium have been the only ones recommended, but they have some disadvantages, as both require many components and their preparations are laborious. Therefore, we developed a novel culture medium for B.
Luis Fernando, Lares-Jiménez, Ricardo Alfredo, Gámez-Gutiérrez, Fernando, Lares-Villa   +2 more
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Balamuthia mandrillaris: een beestachtige doodsoorzaak

Critical Care, 2014
In deze casus bespreken we de ziektegeschiedenis van een patiente die na een bezoek aan Gambia met een meningitisachtig beeld werd opgenomen op de ic van het Erasmus Medisch Centrum Rotterdam (EMC). Ze overleed uiteindelijk aan een granulomateuze amoeben encefalitis (GAE), veroorzaakt door de Balamuthia mandrillaris.
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Isolation and habitat analysis of Balamuthia mandrillaris from soil

Parasitology Research
Balamuthia mandrillaris is a free-living amoeba that causes meningoencephalitis in mammals. Over 200 cases of infection were reported worldwide, with a fatality rate of over 95%. A clear route of infection was unknown for a long time until a girl died of granulomatous amoebic encephalitis (GAE) in California, USA, in 2003 due to infection with B ...
Kanako, Yamanouchi, Hiroaki, Arima, Yamato, Sakamoto, Kazuki, Kanto, Katsuhiro, Itoh, Takakiyo, Tsujiguchi   +5 more
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