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Front Microbiol ; 15: 1356452, 2024.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38426057

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Introduction: Free-living amoebae are an extensive group of protistans that can be found in a wide variety of environments. Among them, the Acanthamoeba genus and Naegleria fowleri stand out as two of the most pathogenic amoebae and with a higher number of reported cases. N. fowleri is mainly found in warm freshwater water bodies whereas amoebae of the Acanthamoeba genus are broadly distributed through natural and anthropogenic environments. In this regard, the management and the control of the amoebic populations in swimming pools has become a major public health challenge for institutions. Methods: The aim of this work was to evaluate the growth pattern of trophozoites of A. griffini and N. fowleri at different temperatures and salt concentrations. Results and discussion: Our results showed that A. griffini resisted a higher concentration of salt than N. fowleri. Moreover, no trophozoites could withstand the salt levels of the sea in in vitro conditions. This work supports the contention that salinity could represent an important and useful tool for the control of the most pathogenic amoebic populations in recreational water bodies.

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Heliyon ; 8(11): e11625, 2022 Nov.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-36439712

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Naegleria. fowleri, a protozoa belonging to the free-living amoeba group, is the causative agent of a central nervous system affecting disease that is fatal in more than the 95% of the reported cases. This parasite can be found in warm water bodies such as lakes, rivers or inadequately disinfected swimming pools. On the other hand, chlorination and UV light treatment are two of the most extensively used disinfection methods in recreational water facilities. In this study the effect of chlorination and UV light on N. fowleri trophozoites was studied in a close water circuit with the aim to assess the efficacy of this disinfection methods in large pools. The obtained results showed that the chlorination was able to decrease the number of viable cells despite the elimination was not totally achieved. Nonetheless, the combination of the UV light with the chlorination allowed the complete removal of the N. fowleri trophozoites from the water in experimental testing conditions.

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J Org Chem ; 80(1): 471-81, 2015 Jan 02.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-25469854

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Privileged structures such as 2-arylindoles are recurrent molecular scaffolds in bioactive molecules. We here present an operationally simple, high yielding and scalable method for regioselective 3-acylation of 2-substituted indoles under basic conditions using functionalized acid chlorides. The method shows good tolerance to both electron-withdrawing and donating substituents on the indole scaffold and gives ready access to a variety of functionalized 3-acylindole building blocks suited for further derivatization.


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Indoles/chemistry , Acylation , Indoles/chemical synthesis , Molecular Structure , Stereoisomerism
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