Acanthamoeba encephalitis in patient with systemic lupus, India

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作者：

Shirwadkar, Charudatt G.

Samant, Rohini

Sankhe, Milind

Deshpande, Ramesh

Yagi, Shigeo

Schuster, Frederick L.

Sriram, Rama

Visvesvara, Govinda S. ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] PD Hinduja Natl Hosp & Res Ctr, Bombay, Maharashtra, India

[2] Calif Dept Hlth Serv, Richmond, CA USA

[3] Ctr Dis Control & Prevent, Atlanta, GA USA

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EMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASES | 2006年 / 12卷 / 06期

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D O I：

10.3201/eid1206.060087

中图分类号：

R392 [医学免疫学]; Q939.91 [免疫学];

学科分类号：

100102 ;

摘要：

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 demonstrating Acanthamoeba mitochondrial 16S rRNA gene DNA in brain tissue sections.

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