Emerging Infectious Diseases (May 2007)

Fatal Disseminated Acanthamoeba lenticulata Acanthamebiasis in a Heart Transplant Patient

  • Stéphane Barete,
  • Alain Combes,
  • Johan F. de Jonckheere,
  • Annick Datry,
  • Shaïda Varnous,
  • Valérie Martinez,
  • Sara García Ptacek,
  • Eric Caumes,
  • Frédérique Capron,
  • Camille Francès,
  • Claude Gibert,
  • Olivier Chosidow

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1305.061347
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 5
pp. 736 – 736

Abstract

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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).

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