| The youngster contracted an alarming organism known as acanthamoeba through infected tap water while visiting Canada last year, and it began to eat away at his cornea. |
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| With the aid of microbiologists at Baylor and the disease control agency in Atlanta, the team identified it as acanthamoeba. |
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| In the mid-1980s, doctoreportedted an acanthamoeba outbreak among contact lens users in this country. |
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| Among them is whether something like a change in chlorination practice has led to an increase in the number of acanthamoeba in certain water supplies. |
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| Epidemiologists from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have linked the acanthamoeba keratitis outbreak to AMO Complete Moisture Plus Multi-Purpose Solution. |
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| Investigations of the acanthamoeba outbreak are ongoing and being conducted by the disease control agency, the Food and Drug Administration, state and local health departments and eye doctors around the country. |
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| They have also advised people to throw out their current contact lenses and the lens storage cases because they may harbor the acanthamoeba parasite. |
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| Acanthamoeba are free-living amoebae found in a variety of environments, including soil, air, and water. |
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| Microbiologic testing identified Acanthamoeba species in cultures from both corneal scrapings and the contact lens. |
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| This is because water can be contaminated by Acanthamoeba organisms that stick tenaciously to contact lenses and cause ulcers in the cornea. |
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| Free-living, amphizoic amebae of genera Naegleria, Acanthamoeba, and Balamuthia can cause central nervous system infection in humans. |
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| Acanthamoeba, a genus of amoebae is one of the most common protozoa in soil, and also frequently found in fresh water and other habitats. |
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| Laboratory investigations later revealed that a component of the solution induced encystment of Acanthamoeba rendering the organism more resistant to disinfection. |
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| Members of the Acanthamoeba genus are free-living protozoans. |
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| In severe cases, the Acanthamoeba can move into the sclera and also attack the optic nerve, giving rise to the severe pain associated with this infection. |
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| Also, NNA was prepared as solid and semisolid media using 100ml of soil extract as supplementation and Acanthamoeba was grown with live and heat killed bacteria separately. |
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| After this outbreak, laboratory investigations found that propylene glycol may cause Acanthamoeba trophozoites to encyst, thereby making them resistant to disinfection. |
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| Acanthamoeba is the commonest protozoal infection of the cornea and together with Pseudomonas species is commonly associated with keratitis from contact lens wear. |
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