Acanthamoeba Keratitis Diagnosis and Treatment
This book provides the concise descriptions of the basic and clinical knowledge about Acanthamoba keratitis, including characteristics of pathogen, risk factors, clinical manifestations, diagnosis and treatment with abundant figure illustrations and typic
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Acanthamoeba Keratitis
Xuguang Sun
Acanthamoeba Keratitis Diagnosis and Treatment
Xuguang Sun Beijing Institute of Ophthalmology Beijing Tongren Eye Center Beijing Tongren Hospital Capital Medical University Beijing, China
Jointly published with People’s Medical Publishing House ISBN 978-981-10-5211-8 ISBN 978-981-10-5212-5 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-5212-5 The print edition is not for sale in China Mainland. Customers from China Mainland please order the print book from: People’s Medical Publishing House. Library of Congress Control Number: 2017964314 © Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. & People’s Medical Publishing House, PR of China 2018 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Printed on acid-free paper This Springer imprint is published by Springer Nature The registered company is Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. The registered company address is: 152 Beach Road, #21-01/04 Gateway East, Singapore 189721, Singapore
This book is dedicated to Professor Xiaolou Zhang (1914–1990), who set up the Department of Ocular Microbiology at the Beijing Institute of Ophthalmology in China.
Preface
As early as 1755, German scientist Rosel Von Rosenhof made the first observation of a free-living amoeba in detail. However, no attention was paid to explore the relationship between human diseases and this organism in the following two hundred years. In 1958, Professor Culbertson et al. found during a vaccine safety test that free-living amoebae could result in the infection of the central nervous system of animals. Thus, he predicted that free-living amoebae would become one of the pathogens of human diseases, which was confirmed by Australian scientist Fowler M and colleagues in 1965, who reported the case of human infection caused by free- living amoebae for the first time in the world. In 1974, Naginton J et al. reported the
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