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Ocular Acanthamoebiasis in Iraq
مجلة كلية الطب, 2008 Free – living or limax amoebae are small free-living protozoans which exist in fresh water and soil environment. These amoebae were found infective to man causing a fatal disease affecting the central nervous system.
Sami Y. Guirges +2 more
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BMC Research Notes, 2020 Objective These amoebas can cause dangerous illnesses when they accidentally enter the human body, so it is necessary to determine various forms of organisms in water resources to prevent the danger they can cause and risks to human health. Currently, in
Homa Attariani +5 more
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Amoebae as Targets for Toxins or Effectors Secreted by Mammalian Pathogens
Toxins, 2021 Numerous microorganisms, pathogenic for mammals, come from the environment where they encounter predators such as free-living amoebae (FLA). The selective pressure due to this interaction could have generated virulence traits that are deleterious for ...
Ascel Samba-Louaka
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Pathogenic free-living amoebae in Korea [PDF]
The Korean Journal of Parasitology, 2004 Acanthamoeba and Naegleria are widely distributed in fresh water, soil and dust throughout the world, and cause meningoencephalitis or keratoconjunctivitis in humans and other mammals. Korean isolates, namely, Naegleria sp. YM-1 and Acanthamoeba sp. YM-2, YM-3, YM-4, YM-5, YM-6 and YM-7, were collected from sewage, water puddles, a storage reservoir ...
Ho-Joon, Shin, Kyung-il, Im
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Free living amoebae in water environment: health implications
Microbiologia Medica, 2014 -
Rossella Briancesco, Lucia Bonadonna
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Free-living amoebae isolated in the Central African Republic: epidemiological and molecular aspects
The Pan African Medical Journal, 2017 Among the many species of free-living amoebae infecting humans, only Naegleria fowleri, a few species of Acanthamoeba, Balamuthia mandrillaris recently Sappinia diploïdea and Paravahlkampfia Francina are responsible for human diseases especially deadly ...
Alain Farra +4 more
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Pathogens, 2020 Free-living amoebae (FLA) are ubiquitous protists. Pathogenic FLA such as N. fowleri can be found in hot springs in Guadeloupe, soil being the origin of this contamination.
Yann Reynaud +3 more
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Pathogenic free-living amoebae
The Korean Journal of Parasitology, 1990 Studies on pathogenic free-living amoebae performed in Korea were briefly reviewed. One strain of Naegleria fowleri was isolated from the sewage, and 3 strains of Acanthamoeba culbertsoni from a reservoir and the gill of fish. They were identified by morphological characteristics. Three strains among the 4 were experimentally proved pathogenic to cause
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Brazilian Journal of Infectious DiseasesAcanthamoeba and Naegleria species are free-living amoebae (FLA) found in a large variety of natural habitats. The prevalence of such amoebae was determined from dust samples taken from public non-hospital internal environments with good standards of ...
Lais Helena Teixeira +4 more
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POTENTIALLY PATHOGENIC FREE-LIVING AMOEBAE IN SOME FLOOD-AFFECTED AREAS DURING 2011 CHIANG MAI FLOOD
Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo, 2013 SUMMARY The survey was carried out to investigate the presence of potentially pathogenic free-living amoebae (FLA) during flood in Chiang Mai, Thailand in 2011.
Anchalee Wannasan +3 more
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