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. 2023 Apr-Jun;18(2):272-274.
doi: 10.18502/ijpa.v18i2.13196.

COVID-19: Acanthamoeba Creeps into the Brain

Ruqaiyyah Siddiqui  1   2 , Maryam Niyyati  3 , Mohamed Yehia Abouleish  1 , Mustafa Khamis  1 , Taleb Ibrahim  4 , Naveed Ahmed Khan  2   5
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COVID-19: Acanthamoeba Creeps into the Brain

Ruqaiyyah Siddiqui et al. Iran J Parasitol. 2023 Apr-Jun.
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Conflict of Interest The authors declare that there is no conflict of interests.

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Currently used anti-Acanthamoebic compounds that proved effective in the recent case of granulomatous amoebic encephalitis in a COVID-19 patient
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