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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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The amoeba can 'bore' into the intestinal wall, causing lesions and intestinal symptoms, and it may reach the bloodstream or peritoneal cavity. [8] From there, it can reach vital organs of the human body, usually the liver, but sometimes the lungs, brain, and spleen. [ 9 ]
Insufficient data exists, but Shigella is estimated to have caused the death of 34,000 children under the age of five in 2013, and 40,000 deaths in people over five years of age. [25] Amoebiasis infects over 50 million people each year, of whom 50,000 die (one per thousand). [29]
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A North Carolina man has died from a brain-eating amoeba after swimming in a manmade freshwater lake at a water park, the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS) announced ...
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
The brain-eating amoeba was blamed for the death in June of an 18-year-old Ohio woman, who became infected after rafting at the U.S. National Whitewater Center in Charlotte, North Carolina.