Pathogenic Free-Living Amoebae
Pathogenic Free-Living Amoebae Isolated From Contact Lenses of Keratitis Patients
... Overall, 62 contact lenses and their para- phernalia of patients with keratitis from hospi- tals and private clinics referred to the Parasit- ology Laboratory, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical ...
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Identification of antigens of pathogenic free-living amoebae by protein immunoblotting with rabbit immune and human sera.
... antigens, a panel of amoebic antigens representing serologi- cally distinct epitopes was used to screen human serum sam- ples for amoeba-reactive antibodies.. In 2 of the 10 pools of ser[r] ...
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Disinfection and environmental studies on pathogenic free living amoebae : a thesis presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Microbiology at Massey University
... The Effect of Chlorine Dioxide on Monoxenically Grown Amoebae , plus 1 x 105.cm-3 bacteria, for 30 minutes , at 3ooc... The Effect of Chlorine Dioxide on Monoxenically Grown Amoebae, plu[r] ...
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Disinfection and environmental studies on pathogenic free living amoebae : a thesis presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Microbiology at Massey University
... Further study on the effect of Baquacil, chlorine and chlorine dioxide on amoebae, in conditions involving the use of a known Biochemical Oxygen Demand BOD, a known bacteria concentratio[r] ...
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Occurrence of Free-living Amoebae in Nasal Swaps of Patients of Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and Critical Care Unit (CCU) and Their Surrounding Environments
... potentially pathogenic Free Living Amoebae (FLA) in hospital environment could be a health hazard for high-risk patients such as immunosuppressed ...potentially pathogenic FLAs in the ...
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Molecular Identification of Free-Living Amoebae (Naegleria spp., Acanthamoeba spp. and Vermamoeba spp.) Isolated from Unimproved Hot Springs, Guilan Province, Northern Iran
... N. australiensis and N. italica can cause infec- tion in experimental animals but N. fowleri is able to infect animals and humans with possi- ble life threatening contamination (7, 8). Acan- thamoeba spp. Vahlkammpfids ...
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Isolation and identification of free living amoebae from water sources with respect to Acanthamoeba, Naegleria in Jeddah city, Saudi Arabia
... These two gene ra showed better growth capability 91.8 and 87.2% at 28± 2 and 37 C˚ respectively, while it was 6.4, 0% at 45C˚. For the growth capability test, both of the FLA were found to be suitable and best grown at ...
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Cellular, Biochemical, and Molecular Changes during Encystment of Free-Living Amoebae
... F ree-living amoebae (FLA) are protozoa commonly found in soil and water. Some of them are pathogenic (54) and can also harbor pathogenic bacteria (61). Indeed, FLA feed on bacteria by ...
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Assessment of Two Different Drinking Water Treatment Plants for the Removal of Free-living Amoebae, Egypt
... these living organ- isms (2). Moreover, free-living amoebae (FLAs) have the ability to survive in diverse environments and have been isolated from soil, different aquatic environments and even ...
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Impact of Free Living Amoebae on Presence of Parachlamydia acanthamoebae in the Hospital Environment and Its Survival In Vitro without Requirement for Amoebae
... the free-living amoeba Acanthamoeba, the most abun- dant genus of amoeba (1, 9, 11, ...the pathogenic role of ...through amoebae, is emerging as a poten- tial etiological agent of ...
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Repertoire of free-living protozoa in contact lens solutions
... Total DNA was extracted using the QIAmp tissue kit ac- cording to the manufacturer’s protocol (QIAGEN SA, Courtaboeuf, France). A 328-bp fragment of the 18S rRNA gene was PCR-amplified using the primers NS5/F ...
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Coevolution in Multispecific Interactions among Free-Living Species
... It is far from clear how coevolved selection pressures contribute to the emergence of highly nested patterns of interaction, given the omnipresence of asymmetry of mutual dependencies (and, presumably, asymmetry of ...
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Chapter 5.3. Antarctic Free-Living Marine Nematodes
... on free-living marine nematodes from the Swedish Antarctic Expedition in 1901–1903 (Allgén 1959), no less than 343 species were described, 200 of which were new to ...marine free-living nema- ...
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Dispersal and gene flow in free-living marine nematodes
... The advance in sequencing technology has generated an unprecedented amount of genome and transcriptome data from, mainly parasitic, nematode species [127,128]. Horizontal gene transfer is a common phenomenon in plant ...
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Protein and Overtraining: Potential Applications for Free-Living Athletes
... Despite a more than adequate protein intake in the general population, athletes have special needs and situations that bring it to the forefront. Overtraining is one example. Hard-training athletes are different from ...
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The Oxygen Uptake of Suspensions and Cultures of a Free living Bacterium
... It is possible to consider the total oxygen uptake of such an actively growing suspension as divisible into two parts—a "maintenance" respiration, directly proportional to the number of [r] ...
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Coping with novelty and stress in free living house sparrows
... counterparts, and even when experimenters do their best to control for all sources of bias, captivity and human proximity might influence the very traits they are trying to investigate. For example, selection studies of ...
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The influence of the bacterial environment on the excystment of amoebae from soil
... SUMMARY: Cysts of two amoebae from soil were grown in single-cell cultures to test the effect upon excystment of the presence or absence of bacteria, age and type of bacteria, ag[r] ...
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Evolutionary origin of cAMP-based chemoattraction in the social amoebae
... of the nine sequences are shaded gray. The conserved regions used for oligonucleotide design are shown for DdcAR1– 4, for PpcAR, which is identical to TasA (24), and for DmcAR. The positions of the putative transmembrane ...
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Maintenance of Sympatric and Allopatric Populations in Free Living Terrestrial Bacteria
... For free-living bacteria and archaea, the equivalent of the biological species concept does not exist, creating several obstacles to the study of the pro- cesses contributing to microbial ...
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