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Fatal Balamuthia mandrillaris Encephalitis

Case Reports in Infectious Diseases, 2019
Balamuthia mandrillaris is a rare cause of granulomatous meningoencephalitis associated with high mortality. We report a 69-year-old Caucasian female who presented with a 3-day history of worsening confusion and difficulty with speech.
Binoy Yohannan, Mark Feldman
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Amoebic granulomatous encephalitis in an immunocompetent patient

, 2016
Granulomatous amoebic encephalitis is an infrequent clinical entity, usually present in immunocompromised persons, where the few cases reported in the literature are due to infections by free-living amoebas present throughout the world, standing out as the most common agents, the Acanthamoeba sp. and Balamuthia mandrillaris.
Matos, Roberto, Ruiz, Jenny, Casanova, Leonardo, Gonzalez, Gustavo   +3 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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Granulomatous amoebic encephalitis

The Lancet, 2004
White, J M L, Barker, R D, Salisbury, J R, Fife, A J, Lucas, S B, Warhurst, D C, Higgins, E M   +6 more
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Potential anti-amoebic effects of synthetic 1,4-benzothiazine derivatives against Acanthamoeba castellanii

Heliyon
A rare but lethal central nervous system disease known as granulomatous amoebic encephalitis (GAE) and potentially blinding Acanthamoeba keratitis are diseases caused by free-living Acanthamoeba.
Alishba, Usman Ahmed, Muhammad Taha, Naveed Ahmed Khan, Uzma Salar, Khalid Mohammed Khan, Ayaz Anwar, Ruqaiyyah Siddiqui   +7 more
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An Acute Case of Granulomatous Amoebic Encephalitis-Balamuthia mandrillaris Infection. [PDF]

Intern Med, 2018
A 74-year-old woman who exhibited drowsiness was referred to our hospital. Enhanced head magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) revealed multiple ring-enhancing lesions and lesions showing partial mild hemorrhaging. The patient gradually progressed to a comatose condition with notable brain deterioration of unknown cause on follow-up MRI.
Takei K, Toyoshima M, Nakamura M, Sato M, Shimizu H, Inoue C, Shimizu Y, Yagita K.   +7 more
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Treatment of granulomatous amoebic encephalitis with voriconazole and miltefosine in an immunocompetent soldier. [PDF]

Am J Trop Med Hyg, 2012
A 38-year-old male immunocompetent soldier developed generalized seizures. He underwent surgical debulking and a progressive demyelinating pseudotumor was identified. Serology and molecular testing confirmed a diagnosis of granulomatous amoebic encephalitis caused by Acanthamoeba sp. in this immunocompetent male.
Webster D, Umar I, Kolyvas G, Bilbao J, Guiot MC, Duplisea K, Qvarnstrom Y, Visvesvara GS.   +7 more
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Genotyping of Acanthamoeba spp. isolated from patients with granulomatous amoebic encephalitis.

Indian J Med Res, 2018
Megha K, Sehgal R, Khurana S.
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Encephalomyelitis Caused by Balamuthia mandrillaris in a Woman With Breast Cancer: A Case Report and Review of the Literature

Frontiers in Immunology, 2022
Balamuthia mandrillaris is one cause of a rare and severe brain infection called granulomatous amoebic encephalitis (GAE), which has a mortality rate of >90%. Diagnosis of Balamuthia GAE is difficult because symptoms are non-specific.
Juan Hu, Yiqi Zhang, Yongwei Yu, Huili Yu, Siruo Guo, Ding Shi, Jianqin He, Chi Hu, Jiqi Yang, Xueling Fang, Yonghong Xiao   +10 more
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Pathogenic free-living amoebic encephalitis from 48 cases in China: A systematic review

Frontiers in Neurology, 2023
BackgroundFree-living amoebae (FLA) including Naegleria fowleri, Acanthamoeba spp., and Balamuthia mandrillaris can become pathogenic and cause severe cerebral infections, named primary amoebic meningoencephalitis (PAM), granulomatous amoebic ...
Xiang-Ting Chen, Qian Zhang, Si-Yuan Wen, Fei-Fei Chen, Chang-Qing Zhou   +4 more
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