Wanda Baltaza
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Chomicz L, Szaflik J, Kuligowska A, Conn D, Baltaza W, Szostakowska B, et al.
Microorganisms
. 2025 Jan;
12(12.
PMID: 39770648
Background: Diseases in humans caused by amphizoic amoebae that can result in visual impairment and even blindness, have recently been identified more frequently worldwide. Etiologically complex incidents of keratitis, including...
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Chomicz L, Szaflik J, Szostakowska B, Izdebska J, Baltaza W, Lazicka-Galecka M, et al.
Microorganisms
. 2023 Jun;
11(5).
PMID: 37317148
Background: Amoebae of the genus cause a sight-threatening infection called keratitis. It is considered a rare disease in humans but poses an increasing threat to public health worldwide, including in...
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Kuligowska A, Baltaza W, Chomicz L, Machalinska A
Ann Agric Environ Med
. 2021 Dec;
28(4):719-723.
PMID: 34969235
keratitis (AK), the vision-threatening disease caused by the amphizoic, potentially parasitic amoebae is growing threat for public health in Poland and worldwide. The report presents the case of 70-year-old man...
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Hendiger E, Padzik M, Zochowska A, Baltaza W, Oledzka G, Zyskowska D, et al.
Parasit Vectors
. 2020 Dec;
13(1):624.
PMID: 33353560
Background: Free-living amoebae of the genus Acanthamoeba are cosmopolitan, widely distributed protozoans that cause a severe, vision-threatening corneal infection known as Acanthamoeba keratitis (AK). The majority of the increasing number...
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Perkowski K, Baltaza W, Conn D, Marczynska-Stolarek M, Chomicz L
Ann Agric Environ Med
. 2019 Jun;
26(2):231-235.
PMID: 31232051
Introduction And Objective: In recent decades the use of orthodontic appliances in Poland has increased; however, data on their influence on changes of components of the microbiome connected with oral...
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Baltaza W, Padzik M, Szaflik J, Perkowski K, Dybicz M, Chomicz L
Ann Parasitol
. 2019 May;
65(1):19-25.
PMID: 31095904
Acanthamoeba keratitis, the vision-threatening corneal disease reported with increasing frequency in Poland is difficult to treat due to extremely high resistance of the amoeba cysts to chemicals. The agents of...
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Padzik M, Hendiger E, Zochowska A, Szczepaniak J, Baltaza W, Pietruczuk-Padzik A, et al.
Ann Agric Environ Med
. 2019 Mar;
26(1):198-202.
PMID: 30922053
Introduction: Various species are free-living organisms widely distributed in the human environment. Amphizoic amoebae as facultative parasites may cause vision-threatening eye disease - keratitis, mostly among contact lens wearers. As...
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Dybicz M, Borkowski P, Padzik M, Baltaza W, Chomicz L
Ann Parasitol
. 2019 Feb;
64(4):339-342.
PMID: 30726664
In this study five cases of suspected alveolar echinococcosis from Poland in which surgical treatment was needed, previously diagnosed by means of imaging and serological techniques, were analyzed in terms...
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Baltaza W, Padzik M, Szaflik J, Dybicz M, Grochowska A, Kurylowicz A, et al.
Ann Parasitol
. 2019 Feb;
64(4):317-322.
PMID: 30720969
Acanthamoeba species are ubiquitous in natural and man-made environments worldwide; some strains are able to colonize human eyes as facultative parasites. It has been shown that environmental and clinical isolates/species...