Recurring seasonal cases of Naegleria fowleri (Brain‐Eating Amoeba) in Pakistan: A rapidly growing threatdoi:10.1002/hsr2.2264Ahmad, Rana UzairBilal, Muhammad ArslanAshraf, Muhammad FawadDaim, Safi Ur RehmanOduoye, Malik OlatundeOkon, Inibehe Ime...
an often-deadlyinfectioncaused by thebrain-eating amoeba, naegleria fowleri. Sebastian DeLeon, 16, is only the fourth person to survive the infection in 50 years—and he did it with the help of a drug that’s not even officially approved to treat the condition. ...
Naegleria fowleriinfection is also known as brain-eating amoeba. The criteria used in this paper limited articles to confirmed cases ofN. fowleriinfection, as well as concurrent infection with other diseases. The latter was included to account for the limitations faced by facilities in diagnosingN...
However, once the brain homeostasis is disrupted, such as SAH or ischemic stroke, the cell morphology of microglia rapidly changes, and cell bodies are enlarged, with axons shortened, thick and big, which are amoeba-like [138]. This type of microglia can express and release a series of ...