Title:	The first Acanthamoeba keratitis case in the Midwest region of Brazil: diagnosis, genotyping of the parasite and disease outcome
Authors:	Alves, Daniella de Sousa Mendes Moreira Gonçalves, Gustavo Souza Moraes, Aline Silva Alves, Luciano Moreira Carmo Neto, José Rodrigues do Hecht, Mariana Machado Nitz, Nadjar Gonçalves, Rodrigo Gurgel Bernardes, Geisa Castro, Ana Maria de Chalita, Maria Regina Vinaud, Marina Clare
Assunto::	Córnea - doenças Córnea - exames
Issue Date:	2018
Publisher:	Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical - SBMT
Citation:	ALVES, Daniella de Sousa Mendes Moreira et al. The first Acanthamoeba keratitis case in the Midwest region of Brazil: diagnosis, genotyping of the parasite and disease outcome. Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, Uberaba, v. 51, n. 5, p. 716-719, set./out. 2018. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/0037-8682-0010-2018. Disponível em: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0037-86822018000500716&lng=en&nrm=iso. Acesso em: 06 jun. 2019.
Abstract:	We report an Acanthamoeba keratitis case associated with the use of contact lens in a 28-year-old female from Brasília, Brazil. Samples from corneal scraping and contact lens case were used for culture establishment, PCR amplification, and partial sequencing (fragments of ~400kb) of small subunit rDNA; both culture and PCR were positive. The sequence analyses of the cornea and of isolates from the contact lens case showed similarity with the T4 genotype. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report of T4 Acanthamoeba keratitis case from the Midwest region of Brazil.
metadata.dc.description.unidade:	Faculdade de Medicina (FMD)
Licença::	Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical – (CC BY) - This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. Fonte: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0037-86822018000500716&lng=en&tlng=en. Acesso em: 06 jun. 2019.
DOI:	https://dx.doi.org/10.1590/0037-8682-0010-2018
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