Rapid identification of thermophilic Naegleria, including Naegleria fowleri using API ZYM system.

Rapid, sensitive, and discriminating identification of Naegleria spp. by real-time PCR and melting-curve analysis.

The free-living amoeboflagellate genus Naegleria includes one pathogenic and two potentially pathogenic species (Naegleria fowleri, Naegleria italica, and Naegleria australiensis) plus numerous benign organisms. Monitoring of bathing water, water supplies, and cooling systems for these pathogens requires a timely and reliable method for identification, but current DNA sequence-based methods ide...

Naegleria lovaniensis new species: isolation and identification of six thermophilic strains of a new species found in association with Naegleria fowleri.

Successful treatment of an adolescent with Naegleria fowleri primary amebic meningoencephalitis.

Naegleria fowleri is a thermophilic, free-living ameba that causes primary amebic meningoencephalitis. The infections are nearly always fatal. We present the third well-documented survivor of this infection in North America. The patient's survival most likely resulted from a variety of factors: early identification and treatment, use of a combination of antimicrobial agents (including miltefosi...

Naegleria Fowleri in Thailand, 2003

Between 1988 and 2003, Naegleria fowleri was studied extensively in Thailand. The distribution of N. fowleri has been studied in many provinces since 1988. During 2001-2003, we received financial support from Mahidol University to study the distribution of pathogenic Naegleria spp in water reservoirs in central, northern, and western parts of Thailand. With these funds, research was conducted i...

Survey of Naegleria fowleri in Geothermal Recreational Waters of Guadeloupe (French West Indies)

In 2008 a fatal case of primary amoebic meningoencephalitis, due to the amoeboflagellate Naegleria fowleri, occurred in Guadeloupe, French West Indies, after a child swam in a bath fed with geothermal water. In order to improve the knowledge on free-living amoebae in this tropical part of France, we investigated on a monthly basis, the presence of Naegleria spp. in the recreational baths, and s...