Acanthamoeba is free living amoeba consisting of many species that are naturally pathogenic and have been isolated from different environmental sources. The purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence...
supported by the Integrative Pharmacogenomics Institute(241910/2017/TSA/13);Geran Inisiatif Penyeliaan 600-IRMI 5/3/GIP(024/2019);Universiti Teknologi MARA,Malaysia
Objective:To determine the morphological and molecular characterization of Acanthamoeba isolates from contact lens paraphernalia in Malaysia and to investigate their pathogenic potential based on the physiological tol...
Acanthamoeba keratitis is a serious infection that can lead to loss of vision. It is highly challenging and often poses a diagnostic dilemma, causing delay in diagnosis and treatment. We report herewith the clinical a...
Water is life and access to clean drinking water is a fundamental human right. For human health, drinking water standards and guidelines have been developed to ensure their quality. Waterborne parasites are a great ch...
Rationale: Microbial keratitis caused by coinfection with more than one species of pathogens is a severe condition with an unfavorable prognosis. Patient concerns: An immunocompetent Nepali woman complained of pain in...
Acanthamoeba keratitis, a vision-threatening disease, is caused by a free-living amoeba of genus Acanthamoeba. Amoeba is widely distributed all around the world. Several cases of Acanthamoeba keratitis have been repor...
supported by the grants Red de Investigation Colaborativa en Enfermedades Tropicales RICET(project no.RD16/0027/0001 of the programme of Redes Temáticas de Investigación Cooperativa,FIS),Spanish Ministry of Health,Madrid,Spain;PI13/00490“Protozoosis Emergentes por Amebas de Vida Libre:Aislamiento,Caracterización,Nuevas Aproximaciones Terapéuticas y Traslación Clínica de los Resultados”from the Instituto de Salud Carlos III.IS;supported by the Agustín de Betancourt Programme;supported by Ayudas Plan Propio de la Universidad de La Laguna 2018(proyectos puente I+D+i);supported by PI18/01380 from Instituto de Salud Carlos III and FEDER,Spain and CTQ2014-55888-C03-01/R(MINECO).MRB:RICET[RD16/0027/0001 project,from Programa Redes Temáticas de Investigación Cooperativa,FIS(Ministerio Español de Salud,Madrid,Spain).
Objective: To evaluate the combination of several statins(atorvastatin, fluvastatin and simvastatin) and azoles(voriconazole, posaconazole and itraconazole) against Acanthamoeba spp. Methods: The efficiency of the dif...
The study is supported in part by a grant of Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea(NRF)funded by the Ministry of Education(2016R1D1A1B03931724).
In this review,recent studies regarding riboflavin-ultraviolet A(UVA)collagen cross-linking for the treatment of acanthamoeba keratitis(AK)were reviewed.English written studies about acanthamoeba,keratitis,riboflavin ...
Supported by Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Science, ICT & Future Planning (No.NRF-2015R1C1A1A02037702)
This study is to investigate the characteristic features of Acanthamoeba keratitis(AK) that differentiating it from herpetic epithelial keratitis(HEK) using anterior segment optical coherence tomography(AS-OCT)....
Pathogenic strains of Acanthamoeba cause keratitis (AK), granulomatous amoebic encephalitis (GAE), amoebic pneumonitis (AP), and skin infection in human and animals. The treatment of an Acanthamoeba infection is invar...