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Editorial
. 2022 May 23;11(5):609.
doi: 10.3390/pathogens11050609.

New Insights in Acanthamoeba

María Reyes-Batlle  1   2   3 , Ines Sifaoui  1   2   3 , Rubén L Rodríguez-Expósito  1   2   3 , José E Piñero  1   2   3   4 , Jacob Lorenzo-Morales  1   2   3   4
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Editorial

New Insights in Acanthamoeba

María Reyes-Batlle et al. Pathogens. .

Abstract

Acanthamoeba is a free-living amoeba genus able to cause severe infections, such as Granulomatous amoebic encephalitis (GAE), epithelial disorders and a sight-threatening disease called Acanthamoeba keratitis (AK) [...].

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