Acanthamoeba Encephalitis in Patient with Systemic Lupus, India

Autor:	Charudatt G. Shirwadkar, Rohini Samant, Milind Sankhe, Ramesh Deshpande, Shigeo Yagi, Frederick L. Schuster, Rama Sriram, Govinda S. Visvesvara
Jazyk:	angličtina
Rok vydání:	2006
Předmět:	Acanthamoeba encephalitis systemic lupus erythematosus dispatch India Medicine Infectious and parasitic diseases RC109-216
Zdroj:	Emerging Infectious Diseases, Vol 12, Iss 6, Pp 984-986 (2006)
Druh dokumentu:	article
ISSN:	1080-6040 1080-6059
DOI:	10.3201/eid1206.060087
Popis:	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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