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  2. Naegleria fowleri - Wikipedia

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    Naegleria fowleri, also known as the brain-eating amoeba, is a species of the genus Naegleria. It belongs to the phylum Percolozoa and is classified as an amoeboflagellate excavate , [ 1 ] an organism capable of behaving as both an amoeba and a flagellate .

  3. Naegleriasis - Wikipedia

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    There, it migrates to the olfactory bulbs and subsequently other regions of the brain, where it feeds on the nerve tissue. The organism then begins to consume cells of the brain, piecemeal through trogocytosis, [14] by means of an amoebostome, a unique actin-rich sucking apparatus extended from its cell surface. [15]

  4. Map shows where brain-eating amoebas are infecting people in ...

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    Brain-eating amoebas may be moving north as waters warm Recent data has not shown an increase in case reports over the past few years. In 2019, 2020, and 2021, three cases were reported to the CDC ...

  5. Brain-eating amoeba - Wikipedia

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    The term "brain-eating amoeba" has been used to refer to several microorganisms: Naegleria fowleri, which causes naegleriasis; Acanthamoeba spp., which causes the slow-acting infection acanthamoebiasis; Balamuthia mandrillaris, which causes balamuthiasis; Paravahlkampfia francinae, which causes a form of PAM; Sappinia pedata, which causes a ...

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  7. Georgia resident dies from rare brain-eating amoeba, health ...

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    From 1962 to 2021, only four out of 154 people in the United States survived a brain-eating amoeba infection, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

  8. Risk of brain-eating amoeba, flesh-eating bacteria may ... - AOL

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    Scientists are becoming increasingly concerned about the possibility for dangerous pathogens, such as Naegleria fowleri, a brain-eating amoeba, and Vibrio vulnificus, a flesh-eating bacteria, said ...

  9. Balamuthia mandrillaris - Wikipedia

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    Balamuthia mandrillaris is a free-living amoeba that causes the rare but deadly neurological condition granulomatous amoebic encephalitis (GAE). [1] B. mandrillaris is a soil-dwelling amoeba and was first discovered in 1986 in the brain of a mandrill that died in the San Diego Wild Animal Park. [2] [3]