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Acanthamoeba

"Acanthamoeba" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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A genus of free-living soil amoebae that produces no flagellate stage. Its organisms are pathogens for several infections in humans and have been found in the eye, bone, brain, and respiratory tract.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Acanthamoeba" by people in this website by year, and whether "Acanthamoeba" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 11 publications over 7 distinct years, with a maximum of 3 publications in 1999
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