Pathogenic and opportunistic free-living amoebae: Acanthamoeba spp., Balamuthia mandrillaris, Naegleria fowleri, and Sappinia diploidea

FEMS Immunology and Medical Microbiology

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-26

  Visvesvara, Govinda S ^a,d   Moura, Hercules ^b   Schuster, Frederick L ^c  

^a NATL CENTER FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^c VIRAL AND RICKETTSIAL DISEASE LABORATORY   (United States)

^d CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Acanthamoeba keratitis; Amphizoic amoebae; Central nervous system infection; Granulomatous amoebic encephalitis; Primary amoebic meningoencephalitis; Skin infection

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; AZITHROMYCIN; CHLORHEXIDINE GLUCONATE; CLARITHROMYCIN; CLOTRIMAZOLE; DIBROMPROPAMIDINE; FLUCONAZOLE; FLUCYTOSINE; KETOCONAZOLE; MICONAZOLE; MILTEFOSINE; PAROMOMYCIN; PENTAMIDINE; POLY(HEXAMETHYLENEBIGUANIDE); POLYMYXIN B; PROPAMIDINE ISETHIONATE; PYRROLE DERIVATIVE; RIFAMPICIN; SULFADIAZINE; VORICONAZOLE;

ACANTHAMOEBA; ACANTHAMOEBA KERATITIS; AMOEBA; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BALAMUTHIA MANDRILLARIS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTACT LENS; ENCEPHALITIS; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION PREVENTION; LUNG INFECTION; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; NAEGLERIA FOWLERI; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SAPPINIA DIPLOIDEA; SHORT SURVEY; SKIN INFECTION; TAXONOMY;

ACANTHAMOEBA; AMEBIASIS; AMOEBA; ANIMALS; HUMANS; NAEGLERIA FOWLERI;

EID: 34248569659     PISSN: 09288244     EISSN: 1574695X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-695X.2007.00232.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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