Knowledge that free-living amoebae are capable of causing human disease dates back
some 50 years, prior to which time they were regarded as harmless soil organisms or, at …

Acanthamoeba is a free-living amoeba that is widely distributed in the environment. It is an
opportunist protist, which is known to cause rare yet fatal infection of the central nervous …

purpose. The incidence of acanthamoeba keratitis (AK) in the UK is some 15 times that in
the United States and seven times that in Holland. To investigate reasons for this higher …

Acanthamoeba is a free-living protozoan genus found in a wide variety of natural habitats,
including water, soil, and air. Pathogenic isolates of Acanthamoeba are medically relevant …

Acanthamoeba spp. are among the most worldwide prevalent protozoa. It is the causative
agent of a disease known as Acanthamoeba keratitis, a painful and severe sight-threatening …

A reliable figure for the expected incidence of Acanthamoeba keratitis of one per 30000
contact lens wearers per year has now been obtained from a combination of three cohort …

Purpose Acanthamoeba keratitis is a severe, often sight threatening, corneal infection which
in Western countries is predominantly seen in daily wear of contact lenses. This review aims …

Species of Acanthamoeba were first described using morphological characters including
cyst structure and cytology of nuclear division. More than 20 nominal species were proposed …

Acanthamoebae are free-living amoebae found in the environment, including soil,
freshwater, brackish water, seawater, hot tubs, and Jacuzzis. Acanthamoeba species can …

The evolutionary history of Acanthamoeba has been substantially resolved by the 18S rDNA
phylogeny which made it possible to delimit the main lines associated with some classical …