AMEBIC DYSENTERY

Amebic Meningoencephalitis & Keratitis

Introduction Definition Free-living amebae of the genera Naegleria, Acanthamoeba, and Balamuthia cause fatal diseases of the central nervous system (CNS) of humans.1-33 Naegleria fowleri causes an acute and fulminant primary amebic meningoencephalitis (PAM) in children and young adults with a history of exposure to fresh water leading to death within 5 to 10 days after the onset of symptoms.4-6...

Ruptured Amebic Liver Abscess

We treated two patients with a ruptured amebic liver abscess. The diagnosis was made at a relatively early stage and treatment was successful for one patient, but an accurate diagnosis of liver abscess was not made and invasive extraintestinal amebiasis led to multiple organ failure and to death for the other. Neither patient had been outside of Japan, and both were heterosexual. The origins of...

Amebic liver abscess.

Amebic liver abscess (ALA) highly endemic in most developing tropical countries is being encountered more frequently in other geographical areas maybe secondary to increased travel to areas where the disease is endemic as well as in the homosexual population. We report a classical clinical case of ALA in a 44 years old man diagnosed by ultrasound and positive seroameba titers who responded to o...

Balamuthia Amebic Encephalitis

test; bioMérieux). DNA was extracted from cultures grown on agar plates and amplified following a previously described protocol (1). The following oligonucleotide primer sequences were used: luk-PV1, 5′-ATCATTAGGTAAAATGTCTGGACATGATCCA-3′; luk-PV2, 5′-GCATCAAGTGTAT T G G ATA G C A A A A G C 3 ′ . Polymerase chain reaction products were sequenced commercially and submitted to GenBank (accession n...

Amœbic Dysentery