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Naegleria fowleriin Well Water
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2008 To the Editor: Naegleria fowleri, a protozoon found in hot springs and warm surface water, can cause primary amebic meningoencephalitis in humans. A survey of drinking water supply wells in Arizona determined that wells can be colonized and may be an unrecognized source of this organism that could present a human health risk. N.
Barbara Blair +4 more
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Identifying the common interaction networks of amoeboid motility and cancer cell metastasis [PDF]
, 2012 The recently analyzed genome of Naegleria gruberi, a free-living amoeboflagellate of the Heterolobosea clade, revealed a remarkably complex ancestral eukaryote with a rich repertoire of cytoskeletal-, motility- and signaling-genes.
Ahmed H. Zeitoun +2 more
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Evolutionary cell biology: Functional insight from “Endless forms most beautiful” [PDF]
, 2015 In animal and fungal model organisms, the complexities of cell biology have been analyzed in exquisite detail and much is known about how these organisms function at the cellular level.
Dacks, Joel B. +4 more
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A Bayesian Nonparametric Method for Prediction in EST Analysis [PDF]
In this work we propose a Bayesian nonparametric approach for tackling statistical problems related to EST surveys. In particular, we provide estimates for: a) the coverage, defined as the proportion of unique genes in the library represented in the ...
Antonio Lijoi +2 more
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NAEGLERIA: BRAIN-EATING AMOEBA
Gomal Journal of Medical Sciences, 2017 Naegleria is a genus of protozoa. The genus was named after French zoologist Mathieu Naegler. Naegleria is a microscopic amoeba that can cause a very rare, but severe, infection of the brain. A brief historical sketch is given since the discovery of this
Sajjad Ahmad, Shaukat Ali
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Induced encystment improves resistance to preservation and storage of Acanthamoeba castellanii [PDF]
, 2008 Several conditions that allow the preservation, storage and rapid, efficient recovery of viable Acanthamoeba castellanii organisms were investigated. The viability of trophozoites (as determined by time to confluence) significantly declined over a period
Campbell, S. J. +3 more
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A preliminary study on amphizoic amoebae with special reference to their preference for bacterial food [PDF]
, 2010 The present study was planned to screen the growth pattern of six different species of pathogenic and non pathogenic amphizoic amoebae viz. Naegleria fowleri, N. gruberi, Acanthamoeba culbertsoni, A. rhysodes, A. polyphaga and A.
Ahmad, Tabrez +2 more
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Naegleria fowleri infections [PDF]
Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2017 W Matthew, Linam, Jennifer R, Cope
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Naegleria fowleri: Swimming with Death as the Major Outbreak in Pakistan
Iranian Journal of Public Health, 2019 Naegleria fowleri: Swimming with Death as the Major Outbreak in ...
Muhammad NAVEED +4 more
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Iranian Journal of Parasitology, 2015 Background: Naegleria spp. is a free-living amoeba of which some species including N. fowleri and N. australeinsis are highly pathogenic in human and animals.
Maryam NIYYATI +6 more
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