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Failure of molecular diagnostics of a keratitis-inducing Acanthamoeba strain.
Experimental parasitology - 1 Dec 2017
Scheid Patrick L, Balczun Carsten
Abstract excerpt
An otherwise healthy 49-year-old female patient presented at the local hospital with severe keratitis in both inflamed eyes. She was a contact lens wearer and had no history of a corneal trauma. In our laboratory for medical parasitology Acanthamoebae were detected microscopically from the cornea scraping and from the fluid of the contact lens storage case after xenical culture and showed the typical cyst...
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