browning at ariel.ucs.unimelb.EDU.AU (Glenn Browning) writes:
>Before anyone says this is not a virus, we know. It's just that this group
>is probably the most appropriate to get responses about a rare infectious
>disease.
>Does anyone know of any cases (reported or not) of infections by the algal
>pathogen Prototheca in any species (human, domestic animal or other animal)
>over the last 20 years?
>Thanks
>Jane Sykes
Medline finds:
Isolation of Prototheca zopfii from a finger. Case report and review of
the literature.
Acta Clinica Belgica. [JC:0kw] 46(4):233-6, 1991.
Peritonitis due to Prototheca wickerhamii in a patient undergoing chronic
ambulatory peritoneal dialysis.
Reviews of Infectious Diseases. [JC:sxn] 13(3):376-8, 1991 May-Jun.
Experimental cutaneous protothecosis in mice: epithelioid cell granuloma
formation.
Journal of Dermatology. [JC:hz7] 18(2):74-8, 1991 Feb.
Successful treatment of Prototheca peritonitis complicating continuous
ambulatory peritoneal dialysis.
Journal of Infection. [JC:ig9] 22(2):183-5, 1991 Mar.
(and about 20 others for just 1988 on)
Keith Robison
Harvard University
Department of Cellular & Developmental Biology
Department of Genetics / HHMI
robison at biosun.harvard.edu
