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amebic
(redirected from amebic meningoencephalitis)

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Adj.1.amebic - pertaining to or resembling amoebae; "amoebic dysentery"
ameban, amebous, amoeban, amoebic, amoebous


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PCR has been used to identify ameba DNA in brain tissue and CSF of persons suspected of having balamuthiasis (2) and in brain tissue of a patient with primary amebic meningoencephalitis caused by N.
Acanthamoeba encephalitis in patient with systemic lupus, India by Visvesvara, Govinda S. / Emerging Infectious Diseases
Primary amebic meningoencephalitis (PAM) is invariably an acute, often fulminant infection caused by Naegleria fowleri, a small, free-living ameba that occasionally infects humans and other mammals.
Fatal Naegleria fowleri meningoencephalitis, Italy by Visvesvara, Govinda S. / Emerging Infectious Diseases
agent of amebic meningoencephalitis in humans and other animals.
Balamuthia amebic encephalitis risk, Hispanic Americans by Visvesvara, Govinda S. / Emerging Infectious Diseases
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