Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan; Department of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan; Department of Parasitology, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan. Electronic address: wcnikelin@mail.ncku.edu.tw.
Cornea & Refractive Surgery, Department of Microbiology, Aravind Eye Hospital and Post-Graduate Institute of Ophthalmology, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India.
Instituto Universitario de Enfermedades Tropicales y Salud Pública de Canarias, Universidad de La Laguna (ULL), Tenerife, 38206, Spain; Departamento de Obstetricia, Ginecología, Pediatría, Medicina Preventiva y Salud Pública, Toxicología, Medicina Legal y Forense y Parasitología, Universidad De La Laguna, La Laguna, Tenerife, 38203 Islas Canarias, Spain; Red de Investigación Cooperativa en Enfermedades Tropicales (RICET). Electronic address: isifaoui@ull.edu.es.
Instituto Universitario de Enfermedades Tropicales y Salud Pública de Canarias, Universidad de La Laguna (ULL), Tenerife, 38206, Spain; Departamento de Obstetricia, Ginecología, Pediatría, Medicina Preventiva y Salud Pública, Toxicología, Medicina Legal y Forense y Parasitología, Universidad De La Laguna, La Laguna, Tenerife, 38203 Islas Canarias, Spain; Red de Investigación Cooperativa en Enfermedades Tropicales (RICET); CIBER de Enfermedades Infecciosas (CIBERINFEC), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, 28029, Madrid, Spain.
Instituto Universitario de Enfermedades Tropicales y Salud Pública de Canarias, Universidad de La Laguna (ULL), Tenerife, 38206, Spain; Departamento de Obstetricia, Ginecología, Pediatría, Medicina Preventiva y Salud Pública, Toxicología, Medicina Legal y Forense y Parasitología, Universidad De La Laguna, La Laguna, Tenerife, 38203 Islas Canarias, Spain; Red de Investigación Cooperativa en Enfermedades Tropicales (RICET); CIBER de Enfermedades Infecciosas (CIBERINFEC), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, 28029, Madrid, Spain. Electronic address: jpinero@ull.edu.es.
Instituto Universitario de Enfermedades Tropicales y Salud Pública de Canarias, Universidad de La Laguna (ULL), Tenerife, 38206, Spain; Departamento de Obstetricia, Ginecología, Pediatría, Medicina Preventiva y Salud Pública, Toxicología, Medicina Legal y Forense y Parasitología, Universidad De La Laguna, La Laguna, Tenerife, 38203 Islas Canarias, Spain; Red de Investigación Cooperativa en Enfermedades Tropicales (RICET); CIBER de Enfermedades Infecciosas (CIBERINFEC), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, 28029, Madrid, Spain.
Institute of Specific Prophylaxis and Tropical Medicine, Center for Pathophysiology, Infectiology and Immunology, Medical University of Vienna, Kinderspitalgasse 15, 1090 Vienna, Austria. Electronic address: julia.walochnik@meduniwien.ac.at.
Department of Biology, Chemistry and Environmental Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, American University of Sharjah, University City, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.
Department of Biology, Chemistry and Environmental Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, American University of Sharjah, University City, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.
Medical Research Center for Bioreaction to Reactive Oxygen Species and Biomedical Science Institute, School of Medicine, Graduate school, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
Medical Research Center for Bioreaction to Reactive Oxygen Species and Biomedical Science Institute, School of Medicine, Graduate school, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
Department of Medical Zoology, Kyung Hee University School of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
Departamento de Biomedicina y Biotecnología, Laboratorio de Parasitología, Grupo ECOMYP, Facultad de Farmacia, Universidad de Alcalá, 28805, Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain. tania.martinp@edu.uah.es.
Acanthamoeba keratitis is a severe ocular infection that poses treatment challenges and can lead to blindness. Despite its ubiquity and potential contamination of contact lenses after water exposure, ...
Acanthamoeba and Klebsiella pneumoniae are both environmental commensals. Recently, clinical harm caused by hypermucoviscous K. pneumoniae has been observed. However, the interaction between these mic...
Here, we report that the bacterial capsule is enlarged when co-cultured with Acanthamoeba using India ink staining, and this effect depends on the number of parasites present. This interaction results...
These findings suggest that the interaction between Acanthamoeba and K. pneumoniae could lead to harmful consequences in public health and nosocomial disease control, particularly hypermucoviscous K. ...
To ascertain the frequency of coinfections in Acanthamoeba keratitis, the nature of copathogens involved, and to analyze the implications in the context of current research on amoebic interactions....
A retrospective case review from a Tertiary Care Eye Hospital in South India. Smear and culture data for coinfections in Acanthamoeba corneal ulcers were collected from records over a 5-year period. T...
Eighty-five cases of culture-positive Acanthamoeba keratitis were identified over a 5-year period (43 of them being coinfections). Fusarium was most commonly identified species, followed by Aspergillu...
Coinfections with Acanthamoeba are common at our centre, and account for 50% of Acanthamoeba keratitis. The diverse nature of the organisms involved in coinfections suggest that such amoebic interacti...
Mimivirus bradfordmassiliense (Mimivirus) is a giant virus that infects Acanthamoeba species - opportunistic human pathogens. Long- and short-read sequencing were used to generate a de novo transcript...
The pathogenic free-living amoebae, Naegleria fowleri and Acanthamoeba polyphaga, are found in freshwater, soil, and unchlorinated or minimally chlorinated swimming pools. N. fowleri and A. polyphaga ...
Free-living amoebae (FLA) rarely cause human infections but can invoke fatal infections in the central nervous system (CNS). No consensus treatment has been established for FLA infections of the CNS, ...
Acanthamoeba spp., are ubiquitous protist which belongs to Free-Living Amoeba (FLA) group, is considered as causal agent of side-threatening keratitis or fatal encephalitis among other human infection...
The purpose of this study was to describe the management of a case of recurrent scleritis and Acanthamoeba -positive scleral abscess in a patient after the use of miltefosine for recalcitrant Acantham...
This is a case study....
In this study, we report a case of advanced Acanthamoeba keratitis with resultant corneal perforation with therapeutic keratoplasty and associated scleritis who later developed a scleral abscess after...
Acanthamoeba scleritis is a rare complication associated with Acanthamoeba keratitis. It has traditionally been treated as an immune reaction and associated inflammation, especially with the use of mi...
Burkholderia pseudomallei, an etiological agent of melioidosis is an environmental bacterium that can survive as an intracellular pathogen. The biofilm produced by B. pseudomallei is crucial for cellu...
The members of genus Acanthamoeba are the etiological agent of uncommon but severe or even fatal opportunistic infections in human beings. The presence of different classes of intracellular and extrac...