A case report of granulomatous amoebic encephalitis by Group 1 Acanthamoeba genotype T18 diagnosed by the combination of morphological examination and genetic analysis

• Main Authors: Takahiro Matsui (Author), Tetsuo Maeda (Author), Shinsuke Kusakabe (Author), Hideyuki Arita (Author), Kenji Yagita (Author), Eiichi Morii (Author), Yuzuru Kanakura (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background The diagnosis of granulomatous amoebic encephalitis is challenging for clinicians because it is a rare and lethal disease. Previous reports have indicated that Acanthamoeba with some specific genotypes tend to cause the majority of human infections. We report a case of granulomat...