Fatal disseminated Acanthamoeba lenticulata infection in a heart transplant patient.
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ABSTRACT: We report a fatal case of disseminated acanthamebiasis caused by Acanthamoeba lenticulata (genotype T5) in a 39-year-old heart transplant recipient. The diagnosis was based on skin histopathologic results and confirmed by isolation of the ameba from involved skin and molecular analysis of a partial 18S rRNA gene sequence (DF3).
SUBMITTER: Barete S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2738471 | biostudies-literature |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
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