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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
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Mini review: Naegleria fowleri the fatal meningoencephalitis

مجلة 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

Pathogens, 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, Leobardo Daniel Gonzalez-Zuñiga, Libia Zulema Rodriguez-Anaya, Luis Fernando Lares-Jiménez, Jose Reyes Gonzalez-Galaviz, Fernando Lares-Villa   +5 more
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PRIMARY AMOEBIC MENINGO ENCEPHALITIS- A CASE STUDY

Pakistan 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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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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Transmission characteristics and prevention measures of Naegleria fowleri： a review

Shanghai 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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Diagnosis of Infections Caused by Pathogenic Free-Living Amoebae

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Infectious Diseases, 2009
Naegleria fowleri, Acanthamoeba spp., Balamuthia mandrillaris, and Sappinia sp. are pathogenic free-living amoebae. N. fowleri causes Primary Amoebic Meningoencephalitis, a rapidly fatal disease of the central nervous system, while Acanthamoeba spp.
Bruno da Rocha-Azevedo, Herbert B. Tanowitz, Francine Marciano-Cabral   +2 more
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Isolation and Identification of Naegleria Species in Irrigation Channels for Recreational Use in Mexicali Valley, Mexico

Pathogens, 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, Saúl Rojas-Hernández, Elizabeth Ramírez-Flores, Diego A. Castillo-Ramírez, Alejandro Cruz Monsalvo-Reyes, Miguel A. Ramírez-Flores, Karla Barrón-Graciano, María Reyes-Batlle, Jacob Lorenzo-Morales, María Maricela Carrasco-Yépez   +9 more
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A preliminary study on Naegleria species in water bodies of Kurunegala district, Sri Lanka

Sri Lankan Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2018
Introduction and Objective: Species belonging to the genus Naegleria are free-living ubiquitous protozoa. They have been isolated from most regions of the world. N.
JANS Gunarathna, D Iddawela, S Wickramasinghe   +2 more
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