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Disseminated Acanthamoeba infection in a human immunodeficiency virus-infected infant
Heidi Schwarzwald1, Purvi Shah, John Hicks
1Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, 77030, USA. hlschwar@texaschildrenshospital.org
The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal
|March 5, 2003
Abstract:
Infection with Acanthamoeba is difficult to diagnose and treat. We present the first case of disseminated Acanthamoeba infection in an HIV-infected infant. The infant survived 2 years with treatment with several agents having anti-Acanthamoeba activity in vitro.