Allovahlkampfia spelaea Causing Keratitis in Humans.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Free-living amoebae are present worldwide. They can survive in different environment causing human diseases in some instances. Acanthamoeba sp. is known for causing sight-threatening keratitis in humans. Free-living amoeba keratitis is more common in developing countries. Amoebae of family Vahlkampfiidae are rarely reported to cause such affections. A new genus, Allovahlkampfia spelaea was recently identified from caves with no data about pathogenicity in humans. We tried to identify the causative free-living amoeba in a case of keratitis in an Egyptian patient using morphological and molecular techniques.

Methods

Pathogenic amoebae were culture using monoxenic culture system. Identification through morphological features and 18S ribosomal RNA subunit DNA amplific

SUBMITTER: Tolba ME 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4945048 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature