Fatal disseminated Acanthamoeba lenticulata infection in a heart transplant patient.

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).

SUBMITTER: Barete S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2738471 | biostudies-literature | 2007 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature