Future priorities in tackling infections due to brain-eating amoebae
Brain-eating amoebae (Acanthamoeba spp., Balamuthia mandrillaris and Naegleria fowleri) can cause opportunistic infections involving the central nervous system. It is troubling that the mortality rate is more than 90% despite advances in antimicrobial chemotherapy over the last few decades. Here, we...
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| author | Khan, Naveed Ahmed * Anwar, Ayaz * Siddiqui, Ruqaiyyah Bano * |
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| description | Brain-eating amoebae (Acanthamoeba spp., Balamuthia mandrillaris and Naegleria fowleri) can cause opportunistic infections involving the central nervous system. It is troubling that the mortality rate is more than 90% despite advances in antimicrobial chemotherapy over the last few decades. Here, we describe urgent key priorities for improving outcomes from infections due to brain-eating amoebae. |
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| spelling | sunway-5342019-06-28T07:43:06Z http://eprints.sunway.edu.my/534/ Future priorities in tackling infections due to brain-eating amoebae Khan, Naveed Ahmed * Anwar, Ayaz * Siddiqui, Ruqaiyyah Bano * QH301 Biology QR355 Virology Brain-eating amoebae (Acanthamoeba spp., Balamuthia mandrillaris and Naegleria fowleri) can cause opportunistic infections involving the central nervous system. It is troubling that the mortality rate is more than 90% despite advances in antimicrobial chemotherapy over the last few decades. Here, we describe urgent key priorities for improving outcomes from infections due to brain-eating amoebae. American Chemical Society 2017-09-21 Article PeerReviewed text en http://eprints.sunway.edu.my/534/1/Naveed%20Khan%20Priorities_Brain%20eating%20amoebae.pdf Khan, Naveed Ahmed * and Anwar, Ayaz * and Siddiqui, Ruqaiyyah Bano * (2017) Future priorities in tackling infections due to brain-eating amoebae. ACS Chemical Neuroscience. ISSN 1948-7193 10.1021/acschemneuro.7b00343. |
| spellingShingle | QH301 Biology QR355 Virology Khan, Naveed Ahmed * Anwar, Ayaz * Siddiqui, Ruqaiyyah Bano * Future priorities in tackling infections due to brain-eating amoebae |
| title | Future priorities in tackling infections due to brain-eating amoebae |
| title_full | Future priorities in tackling infections due to brain-eating amoebae |
| title_fullStr | Future priorities in tackling infections due to brain-eating amoebae |
| title_full_unstemmed | Future priorities in tackling infections due to brain-eating amoebae |
| title_short | Future priorities in tackling infections due to brain-eating amoebae |
| title_sort | future priorities in tackling infections due to brain-eating amoebae |
| topic | QH301 Biology QR355 Virology |
| url | http://eprints.sunway.edu.my/534/ http://eprints.sunway.edu.my/534/ http://eprints.sunway.edu.my/534/1/Naveed%20Khan%20Priorities_Brain%20eating%20amoebae.pdf |