Introduction

Balamuthia mandrillaris (B. mandrillaris) is a free-living amoeba well known in endemic areas for causing potentially fatal neurological infection. It often presents primarily in the skin as an indurated plaque on the central face or — less commonly — on other parts of the body (figure 1).

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