"Acanthamoeba castellanii" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A species of free-living soil amoebae in the family Acanthamoebidae. It can cause ENCEPHALITIS and KERATITIS in humans.
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D048248
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B01.046.500.100.075.080.150
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| 2005 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Acanthamoeba castellanii" by people in Profiles.
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Marquez SM, Harris JK, Kelley ST, Brown JW, Dawson SC, Roberts EC, Pace NR. Structural implications of novel diversity in eucaryal RNase P RNA. RNA. 2005 May; 11(5):739-51.