{"id":62114,"date":"2025-09-05T12:58:37","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T07:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=62114"},"modified":"2025-09-05T13:15:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T07:45:10","slug":"acanthamoeba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/acanthamoeba\/","title":{"rendered":"Acanthamoeba"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Acanthamoeba Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, it is revealed that Acanthamoeba is more widespread in Kerala\u2019s waterbodies than thought earlier.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Acanthamoeba<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a <\/span><b>free-living ameba<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a kind of one-celled organism that <\/span><b>lives in water, soil, and dust.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It can also be found in <\/span><b>swimming pools, hot tubs, drinking water systems<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, humidifiers, and in heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It can cause serious infections of the <\/span><b>brain, skin, eyes, and sinuses.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It can <\/span><b>infect parts of the body through cuts or skin wounds<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> or from being inhaled into the lungs or nostrils. It can get into the <\/span><b>eyes through contact lens use.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>Types of Infections Caused by Acanthamoeba<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Granulomatous amebic encephalitis<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (GAE), which affects the brain and is almost always fatal<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Cutaneous acanthamoebiasis<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a skin infection<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Acanthamoeba rhinosinusitis,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> an infection of the nasal cavity and sinuses<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Acanthamoeba keratitis: It <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is an eye infection that typically occurs in healthy people and can cause permanent vision loss.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/kerala\/acanthamoeba-more-widespread-in-keralas-waterbodies-than-thought-earlier\/article70004060.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">TH<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Acanthamoeba is a free-living ameba, a kind of one-celled organism that lives in water, soil, and dust. Read more about Acanthamoeba Disease, Parasite, Symptoms, Latest News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":62124,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2524,21,22,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-62114","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-acanthamoeba","9":"tag-prelims-pointers","10":"tag-upsc-current-affairs","11":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","12":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}