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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 .
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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.
Contracting a brain-eating amoeba is a serious medical emergency, as it leads to primary amoebic meningoencephalitis, the medical condition caused by the amoeba that affects the brain and spinal cord.
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Di refers to the two nuclei in the trophozoites (feeding stage of the organism).; Ent refers to the enteric environment in which the organism is found.; The species name fragilis refers to the fact that the trophozoite stages are fragile; they do not survive long in the stool after leaving the body of the human host.
The child’s death was reported just days after the death of a 7-year-old California boy who was hospitalized on July 30 with a brain-eating amoeba.
If there are few food bacteria in that new environment, then the social amoeba are able to seed the area with the contained Burkholderia and thus develop a food source. Farmer amoebas do produce fewer spores in a food rich environment than non-farmer amoebas, but this cost is countered by farmers’ ability to replenish their food supply when ...