Acanthamoeba Encephalitis in Patient with Systemic Lupus, India

Acanthamoeba Encephalitis in Patient with Systemic Lupus, India

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 D...

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Main Authors: Charudatt G. Shirwadkar, Rohini Samant, Milind Sankhe, Ramesh Deshpande, Shigeo Yagi, Frederick L. Schuster, Rama Sriram, Govinda S. Visvesvara
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2006-06-01
Series:Emerging Infectious Diseases
Subjects:
Acanthamoeba
encephalitis
systemic lupus erythematosus
dispatch
India
Online Access:https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/12/6/06-0087_article

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