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Primary Amoebic Meningoencephalitis in an Infant due to Naegleria fowleri

Case Reports in Neurological Medicine, 2011
Primary amoebic meningoencephalitis (PAM) caused by free-living amebae Naegleria fowleri is a rare and fatal condition. A fatal case of primary amoebic meningoencephalitis was diagnosed in a 5-month-old infant who presented with the history of decrease ...
Vinay Khanna, Ruchee Khanna, Shrikiran Hebbar, V. Shashidhar, Sunil Mundkar, Frenil Munim, Karthick Annamalai, Deepak Nayak, Chiranjay Mukhopadhayay   +8 more
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Detection of Naegleria species in environmental samples from Peninsular Malaysia.

PLoS ONE, 2011
BackgroundIn Malaysia, researchers and medical practitioners are unfamiliar with Naegleria infections. Thus little is known about the existence of pathogenic Naegleria fowleri, and the resultant primary amoebic meningoencephalitis (PAM) is seldom ...
Init Ithoi, Arine Fadzlun Ahmad, Veeranoot Nissapatorn, Yee Ling Lau, Rohela Mahmud, Joon Wah Mak   +5 more
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Isolation, molecular characterization and phylogeny of Naegleria species in water bodies of North-Western Province, Sri Lanka.

PLoS ONE, 2021
BackgroundThe inland freshwater bodies in the North-Western Province of Sri Lanka have ideal environmental conditions for the Naegleria species. Therefore, the presence and prevalence of Naegleria species in the water bodies of North-Western Province ...
Nuwan Gunarathna, Anjalie Amarasinghe, Sunil Wijesundara, Devika Iddawela, Susiji Wickramasinghe   +4 more
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Naegleria species population found in pond water of parks in Mashhad city, Can the physicochemical factors affect it?

MethodsX, 2018
Naegleria species are the ubiquitous free-living amoebas that are found worldwide in soil and water. Among Naegleria spp., N. fowleri can cause primary amebic meningoencephalitis (PAM). Ninety water samples were collected from the pond of parks.
Ali Asghar Najafpoor, Hossein Zarrinfar, Shiva Ghaderifar, Hossein Alidadi, Habibolah Esmaily, Elham Hajialilo, Bibi Razieh Hosseini Farash, Elahe Ahmadi   +7 more
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FatalNaegleria fowleriMeningoencephalitis, Italy

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2004
We report the first case of primary amebic meningoencephalitis in Italy, in a 9-year-old boy. Clinical course was fulminant, and diagnosis was made by identifying amebas in stained brain sections and by indirect immunofluorescence analysis. Naegleria fowleri was characterized as genotype I on the basis of polymerase chain reaction test results.
COGO, Paola, Scaglia, Massimo, Gatti, Simonetta, Rossetti, Flavio, Alaggio, Rita, Laverda, Anna Maria, Zhou, Ling, Xiao, Lihua, Visvesvara, Govinda S.   +8 more
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Meningoencephalitis due to Naegleria fowleri in cattle in southern Brazil

Revista Brasileira de Parasitologia Veterinária
Naegleria fowleri is a free-living amoeba commonly found in the environment, mainly in fresh water and soil. This protozoon is occasionally involved in cases of fatal central nervous system disease in humans and other animal species.
Luan Cleber Henker, Raquel Aparecida Sales da Cruz, Fernando Soares da Silva, David Driemeier, Luciana Sonne, Francisco Alejandro Uzal, Saulo Petinatti Pavarini   +6 more
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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, Zeshan ALI, Masooma KHWAR, Wahab NAZIR, Nauman KHALID   +4 more
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Mechanisms of parasite‐mediated disruption of brain vessels

FEBS Letters, Volume 600, Issue 5, Page 591-611, March 2026.
Parasites can affect the blood vessels of the brain, often causing serious neurological problems. This review explains how different parasites interact with and disrupt these vessels, what this means for brain health, and why these processes matter. Understanding these mechanisms may help us develop better ways to prevent or treat brain infections in ...
Leonor Loira, Sílvia Arroz‐Madeira, Cláudio A. Franco, Sara Silva Pereira   +3 more
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Lipids Are the Preferred Substrate of the Protist Naegleria gruberi, Relative of a Human Brain Pathogen

Cell Reports, 2018
Summary: Naegleria gruberi is a free-living non-pathogenic amoeboflagellate and relative of Naegleria fowleri, a deadly pathogen causing primary amoebic meningoencephalitis (PAM). A genomic analysis of N.
Michiel L. Bexkens, Verena Zimorski, Maarten J. Sarink, Hans Wienk, Jos F. Brouwers, Johan F. De Jonckheere, William F. Martin, Fred R. Opperdoes, Jaap J. van Hellemond, Aloysius G.M. Tielens   +9 more
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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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