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Acanthamoeba as a cause of peripheral ulcerative keratitis
Arun Thomas Moreira1, N Venkatesh Prajna
1Aravind Eye Hospital and Postgraduate Institute of Ophthalmology, Madurai 625 020, Tamilnadu, India.
Cornea
|July 29, 2003
Abstract
Purpose:
To report a case of peripheral ulcerative keratitis caused by Acanthamoeba.
Methods:
Case report and review of the literature. A 37-year-old woman with a history of pain and redness of the right eye with no apparent predisposing factors, on examination, revealed a peripheral ulcerative keratitis.
Result:
Microbiological investigations of the corneal infiltrate revealed Acanthamoeba cysts.
Conclusion:
All cases of peripheral ulcerative keratitis should be subjected to routine microbiological evaluation including those for Acanthamoeba.