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The prevalence of free-living amoebae in a South African hospital water distribution system [PDF]

South African Journal of Science, 2015
The purpose of this study was to investigate the occurrence of free-living amoebae in the water system of a teaching hospital in Johannesburg (South Africa).
Petros Muchesa, Tobias G. Barnard, Catheleen Bartie   +2 more
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Free Living Amoeba Belonging to Vannella Spp. Isolated from a Hotspring in Amol City, Northern Iran [PDF]

Novelty in Biomedicine, 2017
Background: Free-living amoebae have various genera that are found in several environmental niches such as soil, freshwater, dust, seawater and hotsprings. Most of Free-living amoebae are normally harmless to humans.
Maryam Niyyati, Alireza Latifi
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Genome-wide identification of pathogenicity factors of the free-living amoeba Naegleria fowleri. [PDF]

BMC Genomics, 2014
BACKGROUND The free-living amoeba Naegleria fowleri is the causative agent of the rapidly progressing and typically fatal primary amoebic meningoencephalitis (PAM) in humans.
Zysset-Burri DC, Müller N, Beuret C, Heller M, Schürch N, Gottstein B, Wittwer M.   +6 more
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Naegleria fowleri: Protein structures to facilitate drug discovery for the deadly, pathogenic free-living amoeba. [PDF]

PLoS One, 2021
Naegleria fowleri is a pathogenic, thermophilic, free-living amoeba which causes primary amebic meningoencephalitis (PAM). Penetrating the olfactory mucosa, the brain-eating amoeba travels along the olfactory nerves, burrowing through the cribriform ...
Tillery L, Barrett K, Goldstein J, Lassner JW, Osterhout B, Tran NL, Xu L, Young RM, Craig J, Chun I, Dranow DM, Abendroth J, Delker SL, Davies DR, Mayclin SJ, Calhoun B, Bolejack MJ, Staker B, Subramanian S, Phan I, Lorimer DD, Myler PJ, Edwards TE, Kyle DE, Rice CA, Morris JC, Leahy JW, Manetsch R, Barrett LK, Smith CL, Van Voorhis WC.   +30 more
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Genetic Factors of <i>Campylobacter jejuni</i> Required for Its Interactions with Free-Living Amoeba. [PDF]

Pathogens
Acanthamoeba, a free-living amoeba ubiquitous in environmental water, has been considered as the environmental reservoir of certain bacterial pathogens, including Campylobacter jejuni, an intracellular human pathogen causing self-limiting gastroenteritis.
Samarth DP, Abbasi AZ, Kwon YM.
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amoeba

, 2021
Supporting data on amoeba force field parameters for ionic ...
Martin Klajmon (9530864)
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Bacterial discrimination by dictyostelid amoebae reveals the complexity of ancient interspecies interactions [PDF]

, 2013
Background Amoebae and bacteria interact within predator-prey and host-pathogen relationships, but the general response of amoeba to bacteria is not well understood.
Juneja, Kavina, Miranda, Edward Roshan, Zupan, Blaz, Dinh, Christopher, Nasser, Waleed, Kuspa, Adam, Santhanam, Balaji, Chen, Rui, Shaulsky, Gad, Parikh, Anup, Rot, Gregor   +10 more
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Detection of protozoan hosts for Legionella pneumophila in engineered water systems by using a biofilm batch test [PDF]

, 2010
Legionella pneumophila proliferates in aquatic habitats within free-living protozoa, 17 species of which have been identified as hosts by using in vitro experiments. The present study aimed at identifying protozoan hosts for L.
Bart A. Wullings, van der Kooij, D., Kooij, D., van der, Valster, R.M., Wullings, B.A., Dick van der Kooij, Rinske M. Valster   +6 more
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First report of Acanthamoebae spp. isolation from a volcanic mud spring in the Philippines

Journal of Water and Health, 2023
Acanthamoebae spp. is considered highly adaptive. The present study aims to establish the occurrence of free-living amoebae, particularly Acanthamoebae, to exist in extreme environments such as volcanic mud springs.
Crisselle Marie Celis, Isabella Marie Caburnay, Fritz Irish Avila, Hannah Mica Conol, Aleli Cuevas, Maria Angela Cunan, J Piolo Blanco, Kenneth Bryan Banal, Ma. Frieda Z. Hapan, Edilberto P. Manahan, Mark F. F. E. Padua, Frederick R. Masangkay, Giovanni D. Jesus Milanez   +12 more
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Presence of Acanthamoeba, free living amoeba, and mixed genera in the examined samples.

, 2021
Presence of Acanthamoeba, free living amoeba, and mixed genera in the examined samples.
Faten A. M. Hassan (11707292), M. E. M. Tolba (11707295), H. M. Omar (11707301), Gamal H. Abed (11707298), Sara S. Abdel-Hakeem (11707304)   +4 more
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