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Ophthalmology hospital wards contamination to pathogenic free living Amoebae in Iran.
Acta parasitologica - 1 Sept 2015
Lasjerdi Zohreh, Niyyati Maryam, Lorenzo-Morales Jacob, Haghighi Ali, Taghipour Niloofar
Abstract excerpt
The present study was conducted to determine the occurrence of potentially pathogenic free-living amoeba in ophthalmology wards in reference hospitals in Iran. Since an increasing number of Acanthamoeba Keratitis cases after eye surgery and eye trauma have been recently observed in this country, it could be possible that the disinfection procedures undertaken in the clinical setting may not have a good hygiene...
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