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Waterborne parasites in Uganda: A survey in Queen Elizabeth Protected Area

Public Health Challenges, Volume 2, Issue 4, December 2023., 2023
As water has a multitude of functions, encompassing culinary, hygienic and recreational applications, studies looking at potentially pathogenic waterborne pathogens are crucial in order to prevent disease spread to rural populations and tourists. This study aimed at detecting protozoan trophozoites/cysts, and helminth eggs in environmental and piped ...
Celsus Sente, Howard Onyuth, Andrew Tamale, Bob Mali, Benigna Gabriela Namara, Jacob Gizamba Mugoya, Andrew Rwot Omara   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Guidelines for the purification and characterization of extracellular vesicles of parasites

Journal of Extracellular Biology, Volume 2, Issue 10, October 2023., 2023
Abstract Parasites are responsible for the most neglected tropical diseases, affecting over a billion people worldwide (WHO, 2015) and accounting for billions of cases a year and responsible for several millions of deaths. Research on extracellular vesicles (EVs) has increased in recent years and demonstrated that EVs shed by pathogenic parasites ...
Carmen Fernandez‐Becerra, Patrícia Xander, Daniel Alfandari, George Dong, Iris Aparici‐Herraiz, Irit Rosenhek‐Goldian, Mehrdad Shokouhy, Melisa Gualdron‐Lopez, Nicholy Lozano, Nuria Cortes‐Serra, Paula Abou Karam, Paula Meneghetti, Rafael Pedro Madeira, Ziv Porat, Rodrigo Pedro Soares, Adriana Oliveira Costa, Sima Rafati, Anabela‐Cordeiro da Silva, Nuno Santarém, Christopher Fernandez‐Prada, Marcel I. Ramirez, Dolores Bernal, Antonio Marcilla, Vera Lucia Pereira‐Chioccola, Lysangela Ronalte Alves, Hernando Del Portillo, Neta Regev‐Rudzki, Igor Correia de Almeida, Sergio Schenkman, Martin Olivier, Ana Claudia Torrecilhas   +30 more
wiley   +1 more source

Novel chemotherapeutic strategies in the management of primary amoebic meningoencephalitis due to Naegleria fowleri. [PDF]

CNS Neurosci Ther, 2014
Primary amoebic meningoencephalitis (PAM) due to Naegleria fowleri is a fulminating infection that can result in death within days. The disease prognosis is poor, although early diagnosis and aggressive treatment might increase survival chances [1 ...
Baig AM, Khan NA.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Post-mortem culture of Balamuthia mandrillaris from the brain and cerebrospinal fluid of a case of granulomatous amoebic meningoencephalitis, using human brain microvascular endothelial cells [PDF]

, 2004
The first isolation in the UK of Balamuthia mandrillaris amoebae from a fatal case of granulomatous amoebic meningoencephalitis is reported. Using primary cultures of human brain microvascular endothelial cells (HBMECs), amoebae were isolated from the ...
Rogers, Claire, Alsam, S., Nolder, Debbie, Rogers, C., Sissons, J., Nolder, D., Jayasekera, S., Alsam, Selwa, Tucker, J., Warhurst, D., White, J.M.L., Jayasekera, Samantha, Higgins, E.M., Sissons, James, Higgins, EM, Khan, Naveed Ahmed, Warhurst, David, White, Jonathan ML, Tucker, Julie   +18 more
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Identifying group‐specific primers for environmental Heterolobosa by high‐throughput sequencing

Microbial Biotechnology, Volume 15, Issue 9, Page 2476-2487, September 2022., 2022
In this work, we designed and tested new primer pair that helps to target Heterolobosea, a group of protist that is often neglected and undercovered in conventional high throughput sequencing approaches Summary Diversity of Heterolobosea (Excavata) in environments is poorly understood despite their ecological occurrence and health‐associated risk ...
Vincent Delafont, Anne Mercier, Stéphanie Barrouilhet, Marie‐Laure Mollichella, Pascaline Herbelin, Yann Héchard   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Structural informatics approach for designing an epitope-based vaccine against the brain-eating Naegleria fowleri

Frontiers in Immunology, 2023
Primary Amoebic Meningoencephalitis (PAM), a severe lethal brain disease, is caused by a parasite, Naegleria fowleri, also known as the “brain-eating amoeba”. The chances of a patient’s recovery after being affected by this parasite are very low. Only 5%
Asifa Sarfraz, Tehreem Ul Wara, Sheheryar, Ke Chen, Shahid Habib Ansari, Aqal Zaman, Umar Nishan, Anwar Iqbal, Riaz Ullah, Essam A. Ali, Mohibullah Shah, Suvash Chandra Ojha   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source

Metagenomics-driven rapid diagnosis of an imported fatal case of rare amoebic meningoencephalitis

, 2021
We identified Naegleria fowleri as the aetiologic agent from cerebrospinal fluid of a patient with a travel history to Karachi. We demonstrate the benefit of metagenomics-based rapid diagnosis of primary amoebic meningoencephalitis when routine clinical ...
Pain, Arnab, Alhuthali, Bushra, Guan, Qingtian, Almaghrabi, Reem S, Mfarrej, Sara, Halim, Magid Abdel   +5 more
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Antiamoebic Properties of Metabolites against Naegleria fowleri and Balamuthia mandrillaris

Antibiotics, 2022
Naegleria fowleri and Balamuthia mandrillaris are free-living, opportunistic protists, distributed widely in the environment. They are responsible for primary amoebic meningoencephalitis (PAM) and granulomatous amoebic encephalitis (GAE), the fatal ...
Ruqaiyyah Siddiqui, Anania Boghossian, Bushra Khatoon, Muhammad Kawish, Ahmad M. Alharbi, Muhammad Raza Shah, Hasan Alfahemi, Naveed Ahmed Khan   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Lahore's encounter with Naegleria fowleri: Unveiling health hazards and heightened concerns

, 2023
Health Science Reports, Volume 6, Issue 9, September 2023.
Ahmad Zain, Fatima Ashfaq, Masood Azhar
wiley   +1 more source

Pathogenic free-living amoebic encephalitis from 48 cases in China: A systematic review

Frontiers in Neurology, 2023
BackgroundFree-living amoebae (FLA) including Naegleria fowleri, Acanthamoeba spp., and Balamuthia mandrillaris can become pathogenic and cause severe cerebral infections, named primary amoebic meningoencephalitis (PAM), granulomatous amoebic ...
Xiang-Ting Chen, Qian Zhang, Si-Yuan Wen, Fei-Fei Chen, Chang-Qing Zhou   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source