Characterization of potentially pathogenic free-living amoebae in sewage samples of Calcutta, India
Braz. j. med. biol. res
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23(12): 1271-8, 1990. ilus, tab
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ABSTRACT
1. It is widely accepted that foul or polluted environments are the principal sources of potentially pathogenic species of free-living amoebae. The present paper is the first report of occurrence of potentially pathogenic free-living amoebae in sewage sample of Calcutta, India. 2. We describe the occurrence, isolation, specific identification and comaprative mouse pathogenicity test of two pathogenic amoebae, viz., Naegleria fowleri (N. aerobia) carter, 1970, causing human meningoencephalitis and Acanthamoeba castellanii Douglas, 1930, causing granulomatous amoebic encephalitis, and one non-pathogenic amoeba, viz., A astronyxis Ray and Hayes, 1959, in sewage samples of Calcuta, India. 3. The existence of both pathogenic and non-pathogenic amoebae living side by side is of considerable epidemiological relevance
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Assunto principal:
Esgotos
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Amoeba
Tipo de estudo:
Estudo de etiologia
Limite:
Animais
País/Região como assunto:
Ásia
Idioma:
Inglês
Revista:
Braz. j. med. biol. res
Assunto da revista:
Biologia
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Medicina
Ano de publicação:
1990
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