High Occurrence of Potentially Pathogenic Free Living Amoebae in Water Bodies of Kaleybar and Khodaafarin, East Azerbaijan Province
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Screening Swiss water bodies for potentially pathogenic free-living amoebae.
Free-ling amoebae (FLA) including Acanthamoeba spp., Naegleria fowleri, Balamuthia mandrillaris and Sappinia pedata, can cause opportunistic infections leading to severe brain pathologies. Human infections with pathogenic FLA have been increasingly documented in many countries. In Switzerland, thus far, the occurrence and distribution of potentially pathogenic FLA has not been investigated. Swi...
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عنوان ژورنال: Current World Environment
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0973-4929,2320-8031
DOI: 10.12944/cwe.10.special-issue1.87