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Morbidity and Morality Weekly Report
Acanthamoeba Keratitis --- Multiple States, 2005-2007
(May 26, 2007 / 56(Dispatch);1-3)
Acanthamoeba Keratitis in Soft-Contact-Lens Wearers
(July 3, 1987 / 36(25); 397-8, 403-4)
Acanthamoeba Keratitis Associated with Contact Lenses — United States (June 27, 1986 / 35(25);405-8)
Additional Reading
Awwad ST, Petroll WM, McCulley JP, Cavanagh HD. Updates in Acanthamoeba keratitis. Eye Contact Lens. 2007;33:1-8.
Ibrahim YW, Boase DL, Cree IA. Factors affecting the epidemiology of Acanthamoeba keratitis. Ophthalmic Epidemiol. 2007 Mar-Apr;14:53-60.
Joslin CE, Elmer YT, McMahon TT, Passaro DJ, Stayner LT, Sugar J. Epidemiological characteristics of a Chicago-area Acanthamoeba keratitis outbreak. Am J Ophthalmol. 2006 Aug;142(2):212-17.
Parmar DN, Awwad ST, Petroll WM, Bowman RW, McCulley JP, Cavanagh HD. Tandem scanning confocal corneal microscopy in the diagnosis of suspected Acanthamoeba keratitis. Ophthalmology. 2006;113:538-47.
Yu HS, Kong HH, Kim SY, Hahn YH, Hahn TW, Chung DI. Laboratory investigation of Acanthamoeba lugdunensis from patients with keratitis. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2004;45:1418-26.
Driebe WT Jr. Present status of contact lens-induced corneal infections. Ophthalmol Clin North Am. 2003;16:485-94.
Hurt M, Niederkorn J, Alizadeh H. Effects of mannose on Acanthamoeba castellanii proliferation and cytolytic ability to corneal epithelial cells. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2003;44:3424-31.
Suchecki JK, Donshik P, Ehlers WH. Contact lens complications. Ophthalmol Clin North Am. 2003;16:471-84.
McCulley JP, Alizadeh H, Niederkorn JY. The diagnosis and management of Acanthamoeba keratitis. CLAO J. 2000 Jan;26(1):47-51.
Walochnik J, Haller-Schober E, Kolli H, Picher D, Obwaller A, Aspock HJ. Discrimination between clinically relevant and nonrelevant Acanthamoeba strains isolated from contact lens-wearing keratitis patients in Austria. Clin. Microbiol. 2000;38:3932-6.
Jaison PL, Cao Z, Panjwani N. Binding of Acanthamoeba to [corrected] mannose-glycoproteins of corneal epithelium: effect of injury. Curr Eye Res 1998;17:770-6. Erratum in: Curr Eye Res. 1998;17(10):1036.
Leher HF, Alizadeh H, Taylor WM, Shea AS, Silvany RS, Van Klink F, et al. Role of mucosal IgA in the resistance to Acanthamoeba keratitis. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 1998;39:2666-73.
Leher H, Silvany R, Alizadeh H, Huang J, Niederkorn JY. Mannose induces the release of cytopathic factors from Acanthamoeba castellanii. Infect Immun. 1998;66:5-10.
Schaumberg DA, Snow KK, Dana MR. The epidemic of Acanthamoeba keratitis: where do we stand? Cornea. 1998;17:3-10.
Stothard DR, Schroeder-Diedrich JM, Awwad MH, Gast RJ, Ledee DR, Rodriguez-Zaragoza S, et al. The evolutionary history of the genus Acanthamoeba and the identification of eight new 18S rRNA gene sequence types. J. Eukaryot Microbiol. 1998;45:45-54.
Martinez AJ, Visvesvara GS. Free-living, amphizoic and opportunistic amebas. Brain Pathol. 1997;7:583-598.
Yang Z, Cao Z, Panjwani N. Pathogenesis of Acanthamoeba keratitis: carbohydrate-mediated host-parasite interactions. Infect Immun. 1997;65:439-45.
Ledee DR, Hay J, Byers TJ, Seal DV, Kirkness CM. Acanthamoeba griffini. Molecular characterization of a new corneal pathogen. Invest Ophthalmol Vis. Sci 1996;37:544-50.
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Winchester K, Mathers WD, Sutphin JE, Daley TE. Diagnosis of Acanthamoeba keratitis in vivo with confocal microscopy. Cornea. 1995 Jan;14(1):10-7.
Morton LD, McLaughlin GL, Whiteley HE. Effects of temperature, amebic strain, and carbohydrates on Acanthamoeba adherence to corneal epithelium in vitro. Infect Immun. 1991;59:3819-22.
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Simitzis-Le Flohic AM, Hasle DP, Paniagua-Crespo E, Colin J, Lagoutte F, Donval A, et al. Acanthamoeba keratitis. Epidemiologic and parasitologic study. J Fr Ophtalmol. 1989;12:361-6.
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