This book provides the concise descriptions of the basic and clinical knowledge about
Acanthamoeba keratitis including characteristics of pathogen risk factors clinical
manifestations diagnosis and treatment with abundant figure illustrations and typical cases to
ophthalmological practitioners and researchers. Acanthamoeba pathogen is widely distributed in
the nature. However Acanthamoeba keratitis is generally considered as a type of
sight-threatening keratitis that is difficult to treat. At early stage Acanthamoeba keratitis
usually shows atypical clinical manifestations that are often misdiagnosed as viral or
bacterial keratitis. Moreover there are not approved topical anti-amoebicdrugs available up to
now. We hope ophthalmological practitioners can obtain a co
