Fatal Granulomatous Amoebic Encephalitis Caused by Acanthamoeba in a Patient With Kidney Transplant: A Case Report
| Autor: | Tirdad T. Zangeneh, Jennifer L. Becker, Nancy Bello, Ahmad Salameh |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
encephalitis Acanthamoeba Gastroenterology Flucytosine Internal medicine medicine Granulomatous amoebic encephalitis Miltefosine immunosuppression biology business.industry medicine.disease biology.organism_classification Transplantation Infectious Diseases Oncology granulomatous amoebic Immunology Brief Reports business Fluconazole Encephalitis transplantation medicine.drug Pentamidine |
| Zdroj: | Open Forum Infectious Diseases |
| ISSN: | 2328-8957 |
| DOI: | 10.1093/ofid/ofv104 |
| Popis: | Granulomatous amoebic encephalitis (GAE) due to Acanthamoeba is almost a uniformly fatal infection in immune-compromised hosts despite multidrug combination therapy. We report a case of GAE in a female who received a deceased donor kidney graft. She was treated with a combination of miltefosine, pentamidine, sulfadiazine, fluconazole, flucytosine, and azithromycin. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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