Literature DB >> 9419041

Balamuthia mandrillaris meningoencephalitis presenting with acute hydrocephalus.

B J Duke1, R W Tyson, R DeBiasi, J E Freeman, K R Winston.   

Abstract

The leptomyxid amoeba Balamuthia mandrillaris, previously believed to be a harmless soil-inhabiting organism, is now known to be a rare but consistently lethal cause of meningoencephalitis in humans. We report a case of amebic meningoencephalitis caused by B. mandrillaris which presented as a febrile illness with acute hydrocephalus.

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Year:  1997        PMID： 9419041     DOI： 10.1159/000121172

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  Pediatr Neurosurg        ISSN： 1016-2291            Impact factor:   1.162


  8 in total

1.  Balamuthia amebic encephalitis: radiographic and pathologic findings.

Authors:  John F Healy
Journal:  AJNR Am J Neuroradiol       Date:  2002-03       Impact factor: 3.825

2.  Detection of Balamuthia mitochondrial 16S rRNA gene DNA in clinical specimens by PCR.

Authors:  Shigeo Yagi; Gregory C Booton; Govinda S Visvesvara; Frederick L Schuster
Journal:  J Clin Microbiol       Date:  2005-07       Impact factor: 5.948

3.  Diagnosis of first case of Balamuthia amoebic encephalitis in Portugal by immunofluorescence and PCR.

Authors:  Marta Tavares; Jose M Correia da Costa; S Stirling Carpenter; L A Santos; Caldas Afonso; Alvaro Aguiar; Josue Pereira; Ana Isabel Cardoso; Frederick L Schuster; Shigeo Yagi; Rama Sriram; Govinda S Visvesvara
Journal:  J Clin Microbiol       Date:  2006-07       Impact factor: 5.948

Review 4.  Importance of nonenteric protozoan infections in immunocompromised people.

Authors:  J L N Barratt; J Harkness; D Marriott; J T Ellis; D Stark
Journal:  Clin Microbiol Rev       Date:  2010-10       Impact factor: 26.132

Review 5.  Increasing importance of Balamuthia mandrillaris.

Authors:  Abdul Matin; Ruqaiyyah Siddiqui; Samantha Jayasekera; Naveed Ahmed Khan
Journal:  Clin Microbiol Rev       Date:  2008-07       Impact factor: 26.132

6.  Balamuthia mandrillaris amebic encephalitis.

Authors:  Maria T Perez; Larry M Bush
Journal:  Curr Infect Dis Rep       Date:  2007-07       Impact factor: 3.725

7.  Diagnosis of infections caused by pathogenic free-living amoebae.

Authors:  Bruno da Rocha-Azevedo; Herbert B Tanowitz; Francine Marciano-Cabral
Journal:  Interdiscip Perspect Infect Dis       Date:  2009-08-02

8.  Fatal Balamuthia mandrillaris Encephalitis.

Authors:  Binoy Yohannan; Mark Feldman
Journal:  Case Rep Infect Dis       Date:  2019-01-31
  8 in total

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