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A Japanese case of amoebic meningoencephalitis initially diagnosed by cerebrospinal fluid cytology

Clinical Case Reports, Volume 8, Issue 9, Page 1728-1734, September 2020., 2020
Microscopy can detect the presence of amoebic trophozoites in cerebrospinal fluid and tissue. The infection was confirmed in the present case by polymerase chain reaction and immunohistochemistry, but we were unable to achieve a cure. Our case rapidly progressed without any skin lesions.
Ryogo Aoki, Toshimasa Sakakima, Asuka Ohashi, Riyoko Niwa, Masashi Matsuyama, Fumimasa Etori, Naoki Watanabe, Kenji Yagita, Takuji Tanaka   +8 more
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Increasing Importance of Balamuthia mandrillaris [PDF]

Clinical Microbiology Reviews, 2008
SUMMARY Balamuthia mandrillaris is an emerging protozoan parasite, an agent of granulomatous amoebic encephalitis involving the central nervous system, with a case fatality rate of >98%. This review presents our current understanding of Balamuthia infections, their ...
Abdul, Matin, Ruqaiyyah, Siddiqui, Samantha, Jayasekera, Naveed Ahmed, Khan   +3 more
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Balamuthia mandrillaris

Tropical Parasitology, 2021
Balamuthia mandrillaris is an opportunistic, free-living ameba that is pathogenic to humans. It has a worldwide distribution but is mainly detected in warmer regions. Balamuthia infections are rare but have been reported in both immunocompetent and immunocompromised individuals of all ages. B.
Bhosale, Namrata K., Parija, Subhash Chandra   +1 more
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Discovery of repurposing drug candidates for the treatment of diseases caused by pathogenic free-living amoebae.

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2020
Diseases caused by pathogenic free-living amoebae include primary amoebic meningoencephalitis (Naegleria fowleri), granulomatous amoebic encephalitis (Acanthamoeba spp.), Acanthamoeba keratitis, and Balamuthia amoebic encephalitis (Balamuthia ...
Christopher A Rice, Beatrice L Colon, Emily Chen, Mitchell V Hull, Dennis E Kyle   +4 more
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Molecular analysis unmasking a Balamuthia mandrillaris: Skin lesion and granulomatous amebic encephalitis by Acanthamoeba sp close to genotype T4 with fatal outcome

Clinical Infection in Practice
Background: Acanthamoeba sp, Balamuthia mandrillaris, are a free-living soil amoeba, has emerged as a causative agent of chronic GAE. Methods: The nasal biopsy was sent to our Laboratory of Pathogenic Protozoa and Endosymbionts (LPEP).
Alfonso Martín Cabello-Vílchez, M. Isabel Ruiz-Ruiz   +1 more
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A Novel Protistan Trait Database Reveals Functional Redundancy and Complementarity in Terrestrial Protists (Amoebozoa and Rhizaria)

Molecular Ecology Resources, Volume 26, Issue 1, January 2026.
ABSTRACT The inclusion of functional traits of protists in environmental sequencing surveys, in addition to the traditional taxonomic framework, is essential for a better understanding of their roles and impacts on ecosystem processes. We provide a database of functional traits for a widespread and important clade of protists—the Amoebozoa—based on ...
Jule Freudenthal, Martin Schlegel, Michael Bonkowski, Kenneth Dumack   +3 more
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Balamuthia mandrillaris: Morphology, biology, and virulence

Tropical Parasitology, 2015
Balamuthia mandrillaris is a protist pathogen that can cause encephalitis with a fatality rate of >95%. This is due to our incomplete understanding of the pathogenesis and pathophysiology of B. mandrillaris encephalitis. B. mandrillaris has two stages in its life cycle, an active trophozoite stage during which it divides mitotically.
Siddiqui, Ruqaiyyah, Khan, Naveed Ahmed
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Identification of plicamycin, TG02, panobinostat, lestaurtinib, and GDC-0084 as promising compounds for the treatment of central nervous system infections caused by the free-living amebae Naegleria, Acanthamoeba and Balamuthia

International Journal for Parasitology: Drugs and Drug Resistance, 2019
The free-living amebae Naegleria, Acanthamoeba, and Balamuthia cause rare but life-threatening infections. All three parasites can cause meningoencephalitis.
Monica M. Kangussu-Marcolino, Gretchen M. Ehrenkaufer, Emily Chen, Anjan Debnath, Upinder Singh   +4 more
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ISEV2023 Abstract Book

, 2023
Journal of Extracellular Vesicles, Volume 12, Issue S1, May 2023.
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Seasonal Host Shifts for Legionella Within an Industrial Water‐Cooling System

Environmental Microbiology Reports, Volume 17, Issue 4, August 2025.
Taxonomic profiling for Legionella (the causative agent of Legionnaires' disease) and protist hosts within a water cooling tower showed seasonal peaks for Legionella that were associated with taxonomic shifts in the protist community. Legionella frequency was tracked using amplicon sequencing (blue line) and serogroup profiling (red line).
Suzanne Crull, Emlyn Hammer, Allison E. Mann, Lauren M. O'Connell, Ashlyn Soule, Elizabeth Griffith, Thomas Blouin, Robin L. Brigmon, Vincent P. Richards   +8 more
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