New Insights in Acanthamoeba

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

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) [...].

Publication types

  • Editorial

Grants and funding

This study was supported by the RICET (project no. RD16/0027/0001 of the programme of Redes Temáticas de Investigación Cooperativa, FIS), CIBER de Enfermedades Infecciosas, Instituto de Salud Carlos III (CB21/13/00100), Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (MICINN), State Research Agency (AEI), the European Regional Development Funds (ERDF) (PGC2018–094503-B-C21), Ministerio de Sanidad, Gobierno de España and by the project N◦: 21/0587 funded by the Cabildo de Tenerife, Tenerife Innova, MEDI and FDCAN. RLRE was funded by a grant from Agencia Canaria de Investigación, Innovación y Sociedad de la Información (ACIISI) cofunded by Fondo Social Europeo (FSE) y FEDER, (TESIS2020010117).