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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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Ultrastructure of Naegleria fowleri enflagellation [PDF]

Journal of Bacteriology, 1981
Amoebae of Naegleria fowleri nN68 became elongated flagellated cells 150 to 180 min after subculture to non-nutrient buffer. N. fowleri NF69 did not become elongated or flagellated under these conditions. Electron microscopic examination of N. fowleri confirmed that it is a typical eucaryotic protist with a distinct nuclear envelope and prominent ...
M, Patterson, T W, Woodworth, F, Marciano-Cabral, S G, Bradley   +3 more
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Identification and molecular typing of Naegleria fowleri from a patient with primary amebic meningoencephalitis in China

International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2018
Naegleria fowleri is the only Naegleria spp. known to cause an acute, fulminant, and rapidly fatal central nervous system infection in humans called primary amebic meningoencephalitis (PAM).
Ling-ling Zhang, Mao Wu, Bang-chuan Hu, Hua-liang Chen, Jin-Ren Pan, Wei Ruan, Li-nong Yao   +6 more
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Survey of Naegleria fowleri in geothermal recreational waters of Guadeloupe (French West Indies). [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2013
In 2008 a fatal case of primary amoebic meningoencephalitis, due to the amoeboflagellate Naegleria fowleri, occurred in Guadeloupe, French West Indies, after a child swam in a bath fed with geothermal water.
Mirna Moussa, Johan F De Jonckheere, Jérôme Guerlotté, Vincent Richard, Alexandra Bastaraud, Marc Romana, Antoine Talarmin   +6 more
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Naegleria genus pangenome reveals new structural and functional insights into the versatility of these free-living amoebae

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2023
IntroductionFree-living amoebae of the Naegleria genus belong to the major protist clade Heterolobosea and are ubiquitously distributed in soil and freshwater habitats. Of the 47 Naegleria species described, N. fowleri is the only one being pathogenic to
Alexis Dereeper, Nina Allouch, Vincent Guerlais, Maëlle Garnier, Laurence Ma, Johan F. De Jonckheere, Sandeep J. Joseph, Ibne Karim M. Ali, Antoine Talarmin, Isabel Marcelino   +9 more
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Recurring seasonal cases of Naegleria fowleri (Brain-Eating Amoeba) in Pakistan: A rapidly growing threat. [PDF]

Health Sci Rep
Health Science Reports, Volume 7, Issue 7, July 2024.
Ahmad RU, Bilal MA, Ashraf MF, Daim SUR, Oduoye MO, Okon II.   +5 more
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A Fluorometric Assay for the In Vitro Evaluation of Activity against Naegleria fowleri Cysts

Microbiology Spectrum, 2022
Primary amoebic meningoencephalitis (PAM) is a lethal and rapid infection that affects the central nervous system and is caused by the free-living amoeba Naegleria fowleri.
Iñigo Arberas-Jiménez, Aitor Rizo-Liendo, Ines Sifaoui, Javier Chao-Pellicer, José E. Piñero, Jacob Lorenzo-Morales   +5 more
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Biology and pathogenesis of Naegleria fowleri [PDF]

Acta Tropica, 2016
Naegleria fowleri is a protist pathogen that can cause lethal brain infection. Despite decades of research, the mortality rate related with primary amoebic meningoencephalitis owing to N. fowleri remains more than 90%. The amoebae pass through the nose to enter the central nervous system killing the host within days, making it one of the deadliest ...
Ruqaiyyah, Siddiqui, Ibne Karim M, Ali, Jennifer R, Cope, Naveed Ahmed, Khan   +3 more
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Cyanomethyl Vinyl Ethers Against Naegleria fowleri

ACS Chemical Neuroscience, 2023
Naegleria fowleri is a pathogenic amoeba that causes a fulminant and rapidly progressive disease affecting the central nervous system called primary amoebic meningoencephalitis (PAM). Moreover, the disease is fatal in more than 97% of the reported cases, mostly affecting children and young people after practicing aquatic activities in nontreated fresh ...
Javier Chao-Pellicer, Iñigo Arberas-Jiménez, Samuel Delgado-Hernández, Ines Sifaoui, David Tejedor, Fernando García-Tellado, José E. Piñero, Jacob Lorenzo-Morales   +7 more
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Dataset of cathepsin L-like CP inhibition of Naegleria fowleri and Acanthamoeba castellanii by ppTvCP4r from Trichomonas vaginalis

Data in Brief, 2018
The recombinant TvCP4 prepro region (ppTvCP4r) acts as an exogenous inhibitor of cathepsin L-like CPs from Trichomonas vaginalis (Cárdenas-Guerra et al., 2015 [1]). Here, we present the dataset of the trichomonad ppTvCP4r inhibitory effect against the CP
Rosa E. Cárdenas-Guerra, Moisés Martínez-Castillo, Jaime Ortega-López, Mineko Shibayama, Rossana Arroyo   +4 more
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