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Mini review: Naegleria fowleri the fatal meningoencephalitis

open access: yesمجلة علوم ذي قار, 2022
Primary amoebic meningoencephalitis (PAM) is a fatal parasitic disease caused by a free-living amoeba called Naegleria fowleri also called a brain-eating amoeba.
Nuha Jaboori Hadi
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Distribution and Current State of Molecular Genetic Characterization in Pathogenic Free-Living Amoebae

open access: yesPathogens, 2022
Free-living amoebae (FLA) are protozoa widely distributed in the environment, found in a great diversity of terrestrial biomes. Some genera of FLA are linked to human infections.
Alejandro Otero-Ruiz   +5 more
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Table_1_Case Report and Literature Review: Bacterial Meningoencephalitis or Not? Naegleria fowleri Related Primary Amoebic Meningoencephalitis in China.DOCX

open access: yes, 2022
In China, a 9-year-old boy was transferred to the hospital with fever, vomiting, and headache. The disease rapidly deteriorated into vague consciousness.
Yuzhen Ouyang (12372724)   +6 more
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Primary Amoebic Meningoencephalitis

open access: yes, 2016
Since the discovery of N. fowleri several decades ago, major efforts have failed to prevent and successfully treat primary amoebic meningoencephalitis. It is considered as one of the most aggressive parasitic infections, that almost always leads to death
Ali, Ibne Karim M.   +3 more
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Table_2_Case Report and Literature Review: Bacterial Meningoencephalitis or Not? Naegleria fowleri Related Primary Amoebic Meningoencephalitis in China.docx

open access: yes, 2022
In China, a 9-year-old boy was transferred to the hospital with fever, vomiting, and headache. The disease rapidly deteriorated into vague consciousness.
Yuzhen Ouyang (12372724)   +6 more
core   +1 more source

PRIMARY AMOEBIC MENINGO ENCEPHALITIS- A CASE STUDY

open access: yesPakistan Armed Forces Medical Journal, 2013
Primary amoebic meningoencephalitis is caused by the small, pathogenic, free-living amoeba Naegleria Fowleri, Acanthamoeba species and Balamuthia mandrillaris. The first of these, N.
Col Naila Azam ., Azhar Hayat .
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Unfamiliarity Of Primary Amoebic Meningoencephalitis In Developing Countries [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
We report a case of primary amoebic meningoencephalitis in Nigeria in a 7-year old boy from a rural area. The clinical course was classically that of meningoencephalitis and laboratory diagnosis was from the cerebrospinal fluid and pond water specimen ...
Chigbu, Lawrence N   +2 more
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Lipids Are the Preferred Substrate of the Protist Naegleria gruberi, Relative of a Human Brain Pathogen

open access: yesCell 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   +9 more
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Isolation and Identification of Naegleria Species in Irrigation Channels for Recreational Use in Mexicali Valley, Mexico

open access: yesPathogens, 2020
Members of the genus Naegleria are free-living amoebae that are widely distributed in water and soil environments. Moreover, Naegleria fowleri is a pathogenic amoeba species that causes a fatal disease in the central nervous system known as primary ...
Patricia Bonilla-Lemus   +9 more
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Transmission characteristics and prevention measures of Naegleria fowleri: a review

open access: yesShanghai yufang yixue, 2022
ObjectiveTo review the Naegleria fowleri and primary amoebic meningoencephalitis caused by the naegleria fowleri, so as to strengthen the public awareness of the disease and its prevention.MethodsWe reviewed the literatures and reports, and summarized ...
ZHANG Na, ZHOU Yibiao
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