Catalog

Cutaneous acanthamoebiasis

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Link to WHO Definition

Cutaneous acanthamoebiasis – http://id.who.int/icd/entity/1593305594

Acanthomoeba spp. are ubiquitous free-living unicellular organisms found throughout the world in water and soil; in humans they are associated with severe immunosuppression. Cutaneous infection presents typically as non-healing chronic skin ulcers, the prompt recognition and treatment of which may prevent invasion of the central nervous system and development of the usually fatal complication of granulomatous amoebic encephalitis.