Abstract:
:Balamuthia mandrillaris is a free-living ameba (FLA) that has been isolated or its DNA identified in soil, dust and water. It causes a fatal central nervous system infection in humans and animals. Although it is environmental as Acanthamoeba and Naegleria fowleri, the two other free-living amebae that also cause CNS infections in humans and other animals, Balamuthia does not feed on bacteria as the other FLA. In the laboratory, it can be grown on a variety of mammalian cell cultures. In this study we examined the ability of three different Balamuthia isolates to grow on several different human skin cell cultures including the WT/A keratinocyte cell cultures. A corneal isolate of Acanthamoeba castellanii was used for comparison.
journal_name
Exp Parasitoljournal_title
Experimental parasitologyauthors
Yera H,Dupouy-Camet J,Jackson JW,Sriram R,Sweat S,Goldstein JM,Visvesvara GSdoi
10.1016/j.exppara.2015.05.004subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2015-09-01 00:00:00pages
61-7eissn
0014-4894issn
1090-2449pii
S0014-4894(15)00128-9journal_volume
156pub_type
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