"Acanthamoeba" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A genus of free-living soil amoebae that produces no flagellate stage. Its organisms are pathogens for several infections in humans and have been found in the eye, bone, brain, and respiratory tract.
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D000048
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B01.046.500.100.075.080
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| 2001 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2017 | 5 | 2 | 7 |
| 2018 | 7 | 2 | 9 |
| 2019 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2020 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Acanthamoeba" by people in Profiles.
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Can the Environmental Phagocyte Acanthamoeba Be a Useful Model to Study SARS-CoV-2 Pathogenicity, Infectivity, and Evasion of Cellular Immune Defenses? ACS Chem Neurosci. 2020 08 05; 11(15):2149-2151.
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War on Terror Cells: Strategies to Eradicate "Novel Coronavirus" Effectively. ACS Chem Neurosci. 2020 05 06; 11(9):1198-1199.
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"Proposals for Amendments in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Encephalitis caused by Free-living Amoebae". Infect Disord Drug Targets. 2020; 20(2):115-121.
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Occurrence and molecular characterisation of Acanthamoeba isolated from recreational hot springs in Malaysia: evidence of pathogenic potential. J Water Health. 2019 Oct; 17(5):813-825.
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Reduction of Acanthamoeba Cyst Density Associated With Treatment Detected by In Vivo Confocal Microscopy in Acanthamoeba Keratitis. Cornea. 2019 08; 38(8):e30.
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Occurrence of free-living amoebae (Acanthamoeba, Balamuthia, Naegleria) in water samples in Peninsular Malaysia. J Water Health. 2019 Feb; 17(1):160-171.
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Non-granulomatous cerebellar infection by Acanthamoeba spp. in an immunocompetent host. Infection. 2018 Dec; 46(6):885-889.
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Giant mimiviruses escape many canonical criteria of the virus definition. Clin Microbiol Infect. 2019 Feb; 25(2):147-154.
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Co-culture models illustrate the digestion of Gemmata spp. by phagocytes. Sci Rep. 2018 09 06; 8(1):13311.
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Production of a monoclonal antibody against a mannose-binding protein of Acanthamoeba culbertsoni and its localization. Exp Parasitol. 2018 Sep; 192:19-24.