Acanthamoeba castellani encephalitis following partially mismatched related donor peripheral stem cell transplantation

Transplant Infectious Disease

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 191-194

  Castellano Sanchez, A ^a   Popp, A C ^a   Nolte, F S ^a   Visvesvara, G S ^b   Thigpen, M ^a,b   Redei, I ^a   Somani, Jyoti ^a,c  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NATL CENTER FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Acanthamoeba castellani; Bone marrow transplantation; Encephalitis

Indexed keywords

ACANTHAMOEBA CASTELLANII; ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN SCINTISCANNING; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DONOR; ENCEPHALITIS; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; LABORATORY TEST; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LUNG; MALE; MYELOID LEUKEMIA; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; PERIPHERAL BLOOD STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SINUSITIS; T CELL DEPLETION; ACANTHAMOEBA; AMEBIASIS; ANIMAL; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY TEST; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MIDDLE AGED;

ACANTHAMOEBA; AMEBIASIS; ANIMALS; ENCEPHALITIS; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY TESTING; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERIPHERAL BLOOD STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION;

EID: 2342479751     PISSN: 13982273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3062.2003.00029.x     Document Type: Article

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