First cases of keratitis caused by free-living amoebas of the genus Acanthamoeba diagnosed in Mali
Resnikoff, S.; Paniagua-Crespo, E.; Mjikam, J.M.; Simitzis-Le Flohic, A.M.
Bulletin de la Societe de Pathologie Exotique 84(5 Part 5): 1016-1020
1991
ISSN/ISBN: 0037-9085 PMID: 1819387 Document Number: 374340
The authors present the first three cases of keratitis with Acanthamoeba sp. which have been diagnosed in healthy persons. Two of them are children and in two cases there had been a local traumatism.
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