Search Results - "De Jonckheere, Johan F"
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Naegleria genus pangenome reveals new structural and functional insights into the versatility of these free-living amoebae
Published in Frontiers in microbiology (01-02-2023)“…Free-living amoebae of the genus belong to the major protist clade Heterolobosea and are ubiquitously distributed in soil and freshwater habitats. Of the 47…”
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Origin and evolution of the worldwide distributed pathogenic amoeboflagellate Naegleria fowleri
Published in Infection, genetics and evolution (01-10-2011)“…► Based on the ITS1 and 5.8S rDNA sequences eight types of Naegleria fowleri have been detected. ► Of these eight types only four have been identified until…”
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What do we know by now about the genus Naegleria?
Published in Experimental parasitology (01-11-2014)“…[Display omitted] •Naegleria fowleri produces primary amoebic encephalitis in man.•Naegleria australiensis and N. italica produce disease in experimental…”
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Survey of Naegleria fowleri in geothermal recreational waters of Guadeloupe (French West Indies)
Published in PloS one (18-01-2013)“…In 2008 a fatal case of primary amoebic meningoencephalitis, due to the amoeboflagellate Naegleria fowleri, occurred in Guadeloupe, French West Indies, after a…”
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Lipids Are the Preferred Substrate of the Protist Naegleria gruberi, Relative of a Human Brain Pathogen
Published in Cell reports (Cambridge) (16-10-2018)“…Naegleria gruberi is a free-living non-pathogenic amoeboflagellate and relative of Naegleria fowleri, a deadly pathogen causing primary amoebic…”
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Soil is the origin for the presence of Naegleria fowleri in the thermal recreational waters
Published in Parasitology research (1987) (01-01-2015)“…Naegleria fowleri is found in most geothermal baths of Guadeloupe and has been responsible for the death of a 9-year-old boy who swam in one of these baths in…”
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Phylogenetic Relationships, Divergence Time Estimation, and Global Biogeographic Patterns of Calopterygoid Damselflies (Odonata, Zygoptera) Inferred from Ribosomal DNA Sequences
Published in Systematic biology (01-06-2005)“…The calopterygoid superfamily (Calopterygidae + Hetaerinidae) is composed of more than twenty genera in two families: the Calopterygidae (at least 17) and the…”
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Occurrence of Free-Living Amoebae in Communities of Low and High Endemicity for Buruli Ulcer in Southern Benin
Published in Applied and Environmental Microbiology (01-11-2008)“…Buruli ulcer or Mycobacterium ulcerans disease occurs mainly in areas in proximity to standing or slowly running freshwater, habitats in which free-living…”
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The isolation of Naegleria italica from Peru indicates that this potentially pathogenic species occurs worldwide
Published in Parasitology international (01-09-2005)“…The amoeboflagellate genus Naegleria includes a few species that are virulent in experimental animals. One of these species, Naegleria italica, has been…”
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Isolation and molecular identification of free-living amoebae of the genus Naegleria from Arctic and sub-Antarctic regions
Published in European journal of protistology (01-07-2006)“…Twenty-three freshwater samples with sediment taken from two regions in the Arctic, Spitzbergen and Greenland, and one region in sub-Antarctica, Ile de la…”
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A New Thermophilic Heterolobosean Amoeba, Fumarolamoeba ceborucoi, gen. nov., sp. nov., Isolated Near a Fumarole at a Volcano in Mexico
Published in Acta Protozoologica (01-01-2011)“…An amoeba was isolated from a soil sample collected at the edge of a fumarole of the volcano Ceboruco in the state of Nayarit, Mexico. The trophozoites of this…”
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Short-term sequence evolution and vertical inheritance of the Naegleria twin-ribozyme group I intron
Published in BMC evolutionary biology (02-05-2006)“…Ribosomal DNA of several species of the free-living Naegleria amoeba harbors an optional group I intron within the nuclear small subunit ribosomal RNA gene…”
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Isolation and Molecular Typing of Naegleria fowleri from the Brain of a Cow That Died of Primary Amebic Meningoencephalitis
Published in Journal of Clinical Microbiology (01-08-2005)“…Article Usage Stats Services JCM Citing Articles Google Scholar PubMed Related Content Social Bookmarking CiteULike Delicious Digg Facebook Google+ Mendeley…”
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Isolation of a new heterolobosean amoeba from a rice field soil: Vrihiamoeba italica gen. nov., sp. nov
Published in European journal of protistology (01-08-2010)“…A heterolobosean amoeba strain 6_5F was isolated from an Italian rice field soil. Although 18S rRNA gene sequence analysis demonstrated that the new isolate…”
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The impact of man on the occurrence of the pathogenic free-living amoeboflagellate Naegleria fowleri
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Heterogeneity in the genus Allovahlkampfia and the description of the new genus Parafumarolamoeba (Vahlkampfiidae; Heterolobosea)
Published in European journal of protistology (01-08-2015)“…Heterolobosean amoebae are common and diverse members of soil protist communities. In this study, we isolated seven strains of amoebae from soil samples taken…”
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Molecular Definition and the Ubiquity of Species in the Genus Naegleria
Published in Protist (01-03-2004)“…To investigate the variability within species of the genus Naegleria, the ITS1, 5.8S and ITS2 rDNA were sequenced of several strains of N. lovaniensis and its…”
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Fatal disseminated Acanthamoeba lenticulata infection in a heart transplant patient
Published in Emerging infectious diseases (01-05-2007)“…We report a fatal case of disseminated acanthamebiasis caused by Acanthamoeba lenticulata (genotype T5) in a 39-year-old heart transplant recipient. The…”
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Molecular identification of free-living amoebae of the Vahlkampfiidae and Acanthamoebidae isolated in Arizona (USA)
Published in European journal of protistology (01-01-2007)“…Sediment samples from rivers, canals and lakes in Arizona (USA) were cultured for free-living amoebae at three different incubation temperatures (22, 37 and 40…”
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Morphologic and Molecular Identification of Naegleria dunnebackei n. sp. Isolated from a Water Sample
Published in The Journal of eukaryotic microbiology (01-11-2005)“…Naegleria dunnebackei n. sp., a new species of the free‐living amoeboflagellate Naegleria, is described in this report. The organism was isolated from a water…”
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