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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. 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 ...

  4. Naegleriasis - Wikipedia

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    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] It then becomes pathogenic , causing primary amoebic meningoencephalitis (PAM or PAME).

  5. Brain-eating amoeba that thrives in warm conditions detected ...

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    Public officials are in the process of eliminating Naegleria Fowleri, a brain-eating amoeba, from two drinking water supplies in Louisiana. Naegleria Fowleri was detected during routine tests last ...

  6. Visitors to Nevada warned to beware of brain-eating amoeba in ...

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  7. Georgia resident dies from rare ‘brain-eating amoeba’, likely ...

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    The amoeba is known as the “brain-eating amoeba” because it can cause a brain infection when water containing the amoeba goes up the nose, the health department said.

  8. 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.

  9. Miltefosine - Wikipedia

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    Miltefosine has been used successfully in some cases of the very rare, but highly lethal, brain infection by the amoeba, Naegleria fowleri, acquired through water entering the nose during a plunge in contaminated water. [15] It has orphan drug status in the United States for acanthamoeba keratitis and primary amebic meningoencephalitis (PAM ...