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dc.contributor.author | Bravo Puccio, Francisco Gerardo | |
dc.contributor.author | Seas Ramos, Carlos Rafael | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-01-18T19:26:45Z | |
dc.date.available | 2022-01-18T19:26:45Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2012 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12866/10833 | |
dc.description.abstract | Balamuthia mandrillaris is a free living amoeba that can be isolated from soil. It is an emerging pathogen causing skin lesions as well as CNS involvement with a fatal outcome if untreated. The infection has been described more commonly in inmunocompetent individuals, mostly males, many children, and with a predilection for population with Hispanic background in cases occurring in the United States. Except for Africa, all continents have reported the disease, although a majority of cases are seen in North and South America. In published reported cases from North America, most patients will debut with neurological symptoms, where as in countries like Peru, a skin lesion will precede other symptoms. The classical skin lesion is a plaque, mostly located on face or knee. Diagnosis requires a high level of suspicion. Therapeutic strategies require a multidrug approach, than includes at least one amebicidal drug, and prolonged periods of treatment. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.publisher | Springer | |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | Current Infectious Disease Reports | |
dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess | |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.es | |
dc.subject | Peru | en_US |
dc.subject | Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging | en_US |
dc.subject | Acanthamoeba | en_US |
dc.subject | Epidemiology | en_US |
dc.subject | Sex Difference | en_US |
dc.subject | Fever | en_US |
dc.subject | Headache | en_US |
dc.subject | Hispanic | en_US |
dc.subject | Incidence | en_US |
dc.subject | Mortality | en_US |
dc.subject | Nausea | en_US |
dc.subject | Prognosis | en_US |
dc.subject | Skin Biopsy | en_US |
dc.subject | Diagnosis | en_US |
dc.subject | Albendazole | en_US |
dc.subject | Serology | en_US |
dc.subject | Meningoencephalitis | en_US |
dc.subject | Computer Assisted Tomography | en_US |
dc.subject | Skin Ulcer | en_US |
dc.subject | Treatment Duration | en_US |
dc.subject | Enzyme Linked Immunosorbent Assay | en_US |
dc.subject | Glucose | en_US |
dc.subject | Laboratory Diagnosis | en_US |
dc.subject | Azithromycin | en_US |
dc.subject | Cotrimoxazole | en_US |
dc.subject | Symptomatology | en_US |
dc.subject | Vomiting | en_US |
dc.subject | Fluconazole | en_US |
dc.subject | Amphotericin B | en_US |
dc.subject | Skin Infection | en_US |
dc.subject | Balamuthia Infection | en_US |
dc.subject | Clarithromycin | en_US |
dc.subject | Itraconazole | en_US |
dc.subject | Miltefosine | en_US |
dc.subject | Trophozoite | en_US |
dc.subject | Brain Hemorrhage | en_US |
dc.subject | Flucytosine | en_US |
dc.subject | Buerger Disease | en_US |
dc.subject | Central Nervous System Infection | en_US |
dc.subject | CNS | en_US |
dc.subject | Cranial Nerve Paralysis | en_US |
dc.subject | Focal Epilepsy | en_US |
dc.subject | Free Living Amoeba | en_US |
dc.subject | Hispanics | en_US |
dc.subject | Life Cycle | en_US |
dc.subject | Lymphocytic Infiltration | en_US |
dc.subject | Malaise | en_US |
dc.subject | Miltefosin | en_US |
dc.subject | Neuroimaging | en_US |
dc.subject | Pathology | en_US |
dc.subject | Pentamidine Isethionate | en_US |
dc.subject | Photophobia | en_US |
dc.subject | Pleocytosis | en_US |
dc.subject | Sulfadiazine | en_US |
dc.subject | Therapy | en_US |
dc.subject | Thioridazine | en_US |
dc.subject | Visual Impairment | en_US |
dc.title | Balamuthia mandrillaris amoebic encephalitis: An emerging parasitic infection | en_US |
dc.type | info:eu-repo/semantics/article | |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/s11908-012-0266-4 | |
dc.subject.ocde | https://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#3.03.08 | |
dc.relation.issn | 1534-3146 |
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