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

• Egile Nagusiak: Takahiro Matsui (Egilea), Tetsuo Maeda (Egilea), Shinsuke Kusakabe (Egilea), Hideyuki Arita (Egilea), Kenji Yagita (Egilea), Eiichi Morii (Egilea), Yuzuru Kanakura (Egilea)
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• Argitaratua: BMC, 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z.
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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...