ArticleParasitology research2014
Serologic survey for exposure following fatal Balamuthia mandrillaris infection.
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- Successful Treatment of Balamuthia mandrillaris Granulomatous Amebic Encephalitis with Nitroxoline.Emerging infectious diseases · 2023Article
- Cutaneous balamuthiasis: A clinicopathological study.JAAD international · 2022Article
- Diagnostic evaluation of fatal Balamuthia mandrillaris meningoencephalitis in a captive Bornean orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) with identification of potential environmental source and evidence of chronic exposure.Primates; journal of primatology · 2021Article
- Acanthamoeba spp. and Balamuthia mandrillaris leading to fatal granulomatous amebic encephalitis.Forensic science, medicine, and pathology · 2020Article
- The Epidemiology and Clinical Features of Balamuthia mandrillaris Disease in the United States, 1974-2016.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2019Article
- First report of the isolation of Balamuthia mandrillaris in the northern region of Japan.Parasitology research · 2018Article
- Parasitic Infections Associated with Unfavourable Outcomes in Transplant Recipients.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2018Review
- Detection of Balamuthia mandrillaris DNA in the storage case of contact lenses in Germany.Parasitology research · 2016Article
- Isolation of Balamuthia mandrillaris from soil samples in North-Western Iran.Parasitology research · 2016Article
- Balamuthia mandrillaris therapeutic mud bath in Jamaica.Epidemiology and infection · 2015Article
- The isolation of Balamuthia mandrillaris from environmental sources from Peru.Parasitology research · 2014Article
- Case definitions, diagnostic algorithms, and priorities in encephalitis: consensus statement of the international encephalitis consortium.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2013Article
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Abstract
Granulomatous amebic encephalitis (GAE) from Balamuthia mandrillaris, a free-living ameba, has a case fatality rate exceeding 90% among recognized cases in the USA. In August 2010, a GAE cluster occurred following transplantation of infected organs from a previously healthy landscaper in Tucson, AZ, USA, who died from a suspected stroke. As B. mandrillaris is thought to be transmitted through soil, a serologic survey of landscapers and a comparison group of blood donors in southern Arizona was performed. Three (3.6%) of 83 serum samples from landscapers and 11 (2.5%) of 441 serum samples from blood donors were seropositive (p = 0.47). On multivariable analysis, county of residence was associated with seropositivity, whereas age, sex, and ethnicity were not. Exposure to B. mandrillaris, previously unexamined in North America, appears to be far more common than GAE in Southern Arizona. Risk factors for disease progression and the ameba's geographic range should be examined.
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