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Isolation and identification of potentially pathogenic free-living amoeba in drinking, surface, and stagnant water sources from Alborz Province, Iran

Journal of Water and Health, 2022
Free-living amoebas (FLAs) can cause neurological and ocular complications in humans. Water supplies play a critical role in transmitting FLAs to humans.
Ehsan Javanmard, Maryam Niyyati, Ali Taghipour, Marziye Fatemi, Hamed Mirjalali, Panagiotis Karanis   +5 more
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Opportunistic free: Living amoeba now becoming a usual pathogen?

Indian Journal of Pathology and Microbiology, 2017
Acanthamoeba species cause granulomatous Acanthamoeba encephalitis in immunocompromised patients. We report a case of acute purulent meningoencephalitis with a focal neurological deficit caused by Acanthamoeba species in a 2 years immunocompetent child.
Dnyaneshwari Purushottam Ghadage, Archana Chintaman Choure, Archana Bhimrao Wankhade, Arvind Vamanrao Bhore   +3 more
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Serum antibodies to Balamuthia mandrillaris, a free-living amoeba recently demonstrated to cause granulomatous amoebic encephalitis [PDF]

, 1999
© 1999 by the Infectious Diseases Society of America. All rights reserved.Free-living amoebae cause three well-defined disease entities: a rapidly fatal primary meningoencephalitis, a chronic granulomatous amoebic encephalitis (GAE), and a chronic ...
Ferrante, A., Carter, R., Huang, Z.
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Detection of Free Living Amoeba infection in patients with suspected central nervous system and keratitis disease in Shiraz, southern Iran [PDF]

Journal of Health Sciences and Surveillance System, 2019
Background:Free Living Amoebas, as opportunistic protozoa, can cause more problems such as meningoencephalitis, encephalitis and keratitis in human being. These protozoa have been isolated from many sources in Iran. This study was undertaken to determine
Mohammad Saleh Bahreini, Mohammad Hossein Motazedian, Shahram Bamdad, Mohammad Javad Abbaszadeh afshar, Qasem Asgari   +4 more
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Acanthamoeba polyphaga-enhanced growth of Mycobacterium smegmatis. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2012
BACKGROUND: Mycobacterium smegmatis is a rapidly-growing mycobacterium causing rare opportunistic infections in human patients. It is present in soil and water environments where free-living amoeba also reside, but data regarding M.
Otmane Lamrabet, Felix Mba Medie, Michel Drancourt   +2 more
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Insights From the Genome Sequence of Mycobacterium paragordonae, a Potential Novel Live Vaccine for Preventing Mycobacterial Infections: The Putative Role of Type VII Secretion Systems for an Intracellular Lifestyle Within Free-Living Environmental Predators

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2019
Mycobacterium paragordonae (Mpg) is a temperature-sensitive Mycobacterium species that can grow at permissive temperatures but fails to grow above 37°C. Due to this unique growth trait, Mpg has recently been proposed as a novel live vaccine candidate for
Byoung-Jun Kim, Ga-Yeong Cha, Bo-Ram Kim, Yoon-Hoh Kook, Bum-Joon Kim   +4 more
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Relationships between Free-Living Amoeba and their Intracellular Bacteria

, 2017
An increasing number of bacteria have been described as benefiting from interaction with free-living amoeba. The most common association between free-living amoeba and microorganisms is interaction of various non-pathogenic and pathogenic bacterial ...
Muza Kirjušina, Aivars Bērziņš, Ilze Rubeniņa, Olga Valciņa, Inese Jahundoviča   +4 more
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‘Candidatus Cochliophilus cryoturris’ (Coxiellaceae), a symbiont of the testate amoeba Cochliopodium minus

Scientific Reports, 2017
Free-living amoebae are well known for their role in controlling microbial community composition through grazing, but some groups, namely Acanthamoeba species, also frequently serve as hosts for bacterial symbionts.
Han-Fei Tsao, Ute Scheikl, Jean-Marie Volland, Martina Köhsler, Monika Bright, Julia Walochnik, Matthias Horn   +6 more
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Development of a high- versus low-pathogenicity model of the free-living amoeba Naegleria fowleri

, 2012
Species in the genus Naegleria are free-living amoebae of the soil and warm fresh water. Although around 30 species have been recognized, Naegleria fowleri is the only one that causes primary amoebic meningoencephalitis (PAM) in humans.
Müller, Norbert, Norbert Müller, Gottstein, Bruno, Denise C. Burri, Zumkehr, Béatrice, Schürch, Nadia, Andrew Hemphill, Matthias Wittwer, Hemphill, Andrew, Wittwer, Matthias, Bruno Gottstein, Nadia Schürch, Zysset-Burri, Denise Corinne, Béatrice Zumkehr   +13 more
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Mycobacterium leprae Survival Inside Acanthamoeba sp. Isolated from Water Source in Leprosy Endemic Area, Indonesia

Journal of Tropical Life Science
Mycobacterium leprae is an acid-fast bacterium that causes leprosy diseases, which remains a problem worldwide. Even though leprosy prevalence in the world has decreased significantly, many endemic pocket areas continue reporting new cases and harbor M ...
Ratna Wahyuni, Linda Astari, Iswahyudi Iswahyudi, Sepling Paling, Dinar Adriaty, Siti Kurniawati, Syifa Aulia, Bandaru Rahmatari, Cita Rosita Prakoeswa, Indropo Agusni, Shinzo Izumi   +10 more
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