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Identification of Potential Therapeutic Agents for Primary Amebic Meningoencephalitis Using Text Mining and Bioinformatics Analyses

Analytical Cellular Pathology, Volume 2026, Issue 1, 2026.
Naegleria fowleri, the brain‐eating ameba, causes primary amebic meningoencephalitis (PAM), a fatal infectious disease that affects the central nervous system (CNS). We aimed to evaluate the functions and potential drugs targeting PAM using text mining and bioinformatics analyses.
Eun Jung Sohn, Hyeonseo Jo, Kun Taek Park, Andrey Elchaninov   +3 more
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The genome of Naegleria lovaniensis, the basis for a comparative approach to unravel pathogenicity factors of the human pathogenic amoeba N. fowleri

BMC Genomics, 2018
Background Members of the genus Naegleria are free-living eukaryotes with the capability to transform from the amoeboid form into resting cysts or moving flagellates in response to environmental conditions.
Nicole Liechti, Nadia Schürch, Rémy Bruggmann, Matthias Wittwer   +3 more
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Isolation and Molecular Identification of Acanthamoeba and Naegleria from Agricultural Water Canal in Qazvin, Iran

Iranian Journal of Parasitology, 2020
Background: Free-living amoeba (FLA) are widely distributed in different environmental sources. The most genera of the amoeba are Acanthamoeba, Naegleria and Vermamoeba.
Mandana KHORSANDI RAFSANJANI, Elham HAJIALILO, Mehrzad SARAEI, Safar Ali ALIZADEH, Amir JAVADI   +4 more
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Primary Amoebic (Naegleria fowleri) Meningoencephalitis Presenting as Status Epilepticus [PDF]

, 2011
Primary amebic meningoencephalitis (PAM) is a rare entity. Usual presenting features are fever, headache and seizures with meningeal signs and this disease carries high mortality rate.
Bharti, V, Gargi, G, Jaret, P, Panda, P, Raina, R, Sharma, A   +5 more
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Cyanobacterial contribution to the genomes of the plastid-lacking protists [PDF]

, 2009
Background Eukaryotic genes with cyanobacterial ancestry in plastid-lacking protists have been regarded as important evolutionary markers implicating the presence of plastids in the early evolution of eukaryotes.
Matsuzaki Motomichi, Maruyama Shinichiro, Misawa Kazuharu, Nozaki Hisayoshi   +3 more
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GalNAc Carbohydrate Prevents the Formation of Neutrophil Extracellular Traps and Increase Myeloperoxidase Enzyme Activity in Interactions of Neutrophils and Entamoeba histolytica Preincubated With GalNAc

BioMed Research International, Volume 2026, Issue 1, 2026.
During amoebic infection, neutrophils are the first cells of the immune system to interact with trophozoites of Entamoeba histolytica, initiating amoebicidal activity. Different lectins and carbohydrates can participate in the mechanism of adhesion between E.
David Levaro-Loquio, Andrea Cruz-Baquero, Germán Higuera-Martínez, José De Jesús Serrano-Luna, Arturo Contis-Montes de Oca, Edgar Abarca-Rojano, Ivonne Maciel Arciniega-Martínez, Aldo Arturo Reséndiz-Albor, Judith Pacheco-Yépez, Edilene O. Silva   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Isolation and Identification of Naegleria Species from Environmental Water in Changchun, Northeastern China

Iranian Journal of Parasitology, 2014
Background: Naegleria is a free-living amoeba, and pathogenic Naegleria may pose a health risk to people exposed to recreational water. Our objective in this study was to determine if there are pathogenic amoebae in environmental water samples from ...
Wei Wang, Feng Wei, Jiping Li, Nan Li, Quan Liu   +4 more
doaj  

Nonpathogenic Free-Living Amoebae in Arkansas Recreational Waters [PDF]

, 1975
Selected recreational waters of Arkansas were sampled for pathogenic free-living limax amoebae. Water quality parameters were determined for correlation with amoebic population densities and species diversity.
Becker, David A., Bone, Leon W.
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Horizontal gene transfer contributed to the evolution of extracellular surface structures [PDF]

, 2012
The single-cell layered ectoderm of the fresh water polyp Hydra fulfills the function of an epidermis by protecting the animals from the surrounding medium.
Altstätter, Johannes, Böttger, Angelika, David, Charles N., Deutzmann, Rainer, Doxey, Andrew C., Gabius, Hans-Joachim, Geissner, Andreas, Heim, Astrid, Hess, Michael W., McConkey, Brendan J., Münder, Sandra, Pauly, Barbara, Pfaller, Kristian, Salvenmoser, Willi   +13 more
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Detection of Microbial Contaminants in Water: Conventional Methods, Pragmatic Alternatives, and Nanosensing Techniques

MicrobiologyOpen, Volume 14, Issue 6, December 2025.
Conventional culture and immunological methods of detecting bacterial water contaminants have some limitations. There are alternative pragmatic methods which are more efficient and faster in the detection of bacteria in water, especially nanosensors. ABSTRACT The complexities of microbial detection and conventional enumeration necessitates the adoption
Adeyemi O. Adeeyo, Joshua N. Edokpayi, Mercy A. Alabi, Joshua A. Oyetade, Eunice Ubomba‐Jaswa, Penny Jaca, Rachel Makungo   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source