Fatal Granulomatous Amoebic Encephalitis Caused by Acanthamoeba in a Patient With Kidney Transplant: A Case Report

Open Forum Infect Dis. 2015 Jul 10;2(3):ofv104. doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofv104. eCollection 2015 Sep.

Abstract

Granulomatous amoebic encephalitis (GAE) due to Acanthamoeba is almost a uniformly fatal infection in immune-compromised hosts despite multidrug combination therapy. We report a case of GAE in a female who received a deceased donor kidney graft. She was treated with a combination of miltefosine, pentamidine, sulfadiazine, fluconazole, flucytosine, and azithromycin.

Keywords: Acanthamoeba; encephalitis; granulomatous amoebic; immunosuppression; transplantation.