Topic
Lobosea
About: Lobosea is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 22 publications have been published within this topic receiving 736 citations.
Papers
TL;DR: An amoeba isolated from an aquatic biotope, identified morphologically as Saccamoeba limax, was found harbouring mutualistic rod-shaped gram-negative bacteria, and a coinfection also by lysis-inducing chlamydia-like organisms was found in some subpopulations of that amoEBa.
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TL;DR: Screening of serum samples of encephalitis patients was undertook to look for evidence of Balan~utlzia CAE or exposure to Balunziirhiu as indicated by elevated antibody titers demonstrated by indirect iminunofluorescence (IIF).
Abstract: More than 100 different infectious agents are known to cause encephalitis in humans, including viruses, bacteria, protozoa, and multicellular parasites. Balamuthiu mandrillaris is a free-living ameba that causes granulomatous amebic encephalitis (GAE) in both immunocompetent and immunocompromised individuals. Identified and isolated about a dozen years ago from a mandrill baboon [ 121, >SO cases have since been reported globally with 40 cases in the United States. As part of the California Encephalitis Project (CEP) a program to identify the etiologic agents involved in otherwise undiagnosed encephalitis cases we undertook screening of serum samples of encephalitis patients to look for evidence of Balan~utlzia CAE or exposure to Balunziirhiu as indicated by elevated antibody titers demonstrated by indirect iminunofluorescence (IIF).
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TL;DR: The detection of a serine proteinase gene in a highly virulent Acanthamoeba keratitis causing strain with genotype T6 is significant, because while T4 is the most common genotype among pathogenic Acanthamaeba strains and also T12 is known to be associated with disease, this is the only virulentAcanthamoEBa T6 strain known to date.
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