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 DNA in brain tissue sections.
Shirwadkar
Charudatt G
CG
P.D. Hinduja National Hospital and Research Centre, Mumbai, India.
Samant
Rohini
R
Sankhe
Milind
M
Deshpande
Ramesh
R
Yagi
Shigeo
S
Schuster
Frederick L
FL
Sriram
Rama
R
Visvesvara
Govinda S
GS
D000048:Acanthamoeba / Q000235:genetics / Q000254:growth & development*; D000328:Adult; D000562:Amebiasis / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology; D000818:Animals; D020808:Central Nervous System Protozoal Infections / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology; D016054:DNA, Protozoan / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics; D004660:Encephalitis / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D006651:Histocytochemistry; D006801:Humans; D007194:India; D008180:Lupus Erythematosus, Systemic / Q000469:parasitology*; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction
D016054:DNA, Protozoan