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It causes gastrointestinal upset in some people, but not in others. [1] It is an important cause of traveller's diarrhoea, chronic diarrhoea, fatigue and, in children, failure to thrive . Despite this, its role as a "commensal, pathobiont, or pathogen" is still debated. [ 2 ]
As many individuals are asymptomatic carriers of D. fragilis, pathogenic and nonpathogenic variants are proposed to exist.A study of D. fragilis isolates from 60 individuals with symptomatic infection in Sydney, Australia, found all were infected with the same genotype, [4] which is the most common worldwide, but differed from the genotype first described from a North American isolate and ...
It is theorized that the absence of symptoms or their intensity may vary with such factors as strain of amoeba, immune response of the host, and perhaps associated bacteria and viruses. [citation needed] In asymptomatic infections, the amoeba lives by eating and digesting bacteria and food particles in the gut, a part of the gastrointestinal ...
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Michael John Riley Jr., 14, was diagnosed with a lethal disease caused by a brain-eating amoeba. Doctors say the amoeba entered through the teen's nose and swam into his Promising Junior Olympian ...
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 .
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It affects healthy children or young adults who have recently been exposed to bodies of fresh water. [3] Scientists speculate that lower age groups are at a higher risk of contracting the disease because adolescents have a more underdeveloped and porous cribriform plate , through which the amoeba travels to reach the brain.