Biology and pathogenesis of Acanthamoeba

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Siddiqui, Ruqaiyyah ^a   Khan, Naveed Ahmed ^a,b  

^a AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; AZITHROMYCIN; CHITOSAN DERIVATIVE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CHLORHEXIDINE GLUCONATE; CHOLERA TOXIN; DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE; FLUCONAZOLE; HEXAMIDINE; ITRACONAZOLE; KETOCONAZOLE; LIPOSOME; NEOMYCIN; PENTAMIDINE ISETHIONATE; POLY(HEXAMETHYLENEBIGUANIDE); PROPAMIDINE ISETHIONATE; RIFAMPICIN; ROKITAMYCIN; SULFADIAZINE;

ACANTHAMOEBA ENCEPHALITIS; ACANTHAMOEBA INFECTION; ACANTHAMOEBA KERATITIS; AMOEBA (LIFE CYCLE STAGE); BACTERIAL INFECTION; BALAMUTHIA INFECTION; BALAMUTHIA MANDRILLARIS; BIOLOGY; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MOTILITY; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTACT LENS; CORNEAL BIOPSY; CYST (RESTING STAGE); ECOSYSTEM; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; ENVIRONMENT; EXTENDED WEAR CONTACT LENS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; GRANULOMATOUS AMEBIC ENCEPHALITIS; HOST SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNIZATION; LUNG INFECTION; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MORTALITY; NAEGLERIA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PATHOGENESIS; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PLEOCYTOSIS; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; SKIN INFECTION; TROPHOZOITE;

ACANTHAMOEBA; ACANTHAMOEBA KERATITIS; AMEBIASIS; ENCEPHALITIS;

ACANTHAMOEBA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EQUIDAE; PROTISTA;

EID: 84855516276     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-5-6     Document Type: Review

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