학술논문
Fatal Disseminated Acanthamoeba lenticulata Infection in a Heart Transplant Patient.
Document Type
Article
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Source
Subject
*ACANTHAMOEBA
*HEART transplant recipients
*AMOEBA
*DIAGNOSIS
*HISTOPATHOLOGY
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ISSN
1080-6040
Abstract
We report a fatal case of disseminated acanthamebiasis caused by Acanthamoeba lenticulata (genotype T5) in a 39-year-old heart transplant recipient. The diagnosis was based on skin histopathologic results and confirmed by isolation of the ameba from involved skin and molecular analysis of a partial 18S rRNA gene sequence (DF3). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]