JERUSALEM, July 7 (Xinhua) -- A 26-year-old Israeli man passed away at Beilinson Hospital in central Israel on Sunday due to complications from a rare brain-eating amoeba infection, the hospital confirmed in a statement. An investigation conducted by the Israeli Health Ministry in recent days ...
In this paper, a fatal case of amoebic encephalitis caused by Naegleria fowleri is presented in an immunosuppressed patient, with the infection being revealed by cerebrospinal fluid microscopy, amoeba culture, and neuroimaging. This paper is significant being the first case report on...
a 36-year-old man died of severe brain inflammation after contracting the same amoeba –Naegleria fowleri.The patient, a resident of the north who was previously healthy, was diagnosed at Poriya Hospital. It is known that a puddle of water contaminated with amoebas entered his nose...
They using rapid next-generation genomic sequencing to search the patient's spinal fluid for non-human DNA, then compared what they found against databases of genes of every known invasive microorganism or virus. This "metagenomic" approach rapidly found a match: a common soil-dwellingamoebacalled ...
Naegleria fowleri is sometimes called the brain-eating amoeba. Exposure to untreated warm freshwater in the summer is a risk factor. Read about symptoms, treatment, causes, prevention, and prognosis of Naegleria fowleri infection.
Clinicians at AdventHealth have expanded their groundbreaking brain-eating amoeba test beyond Florida, accepting samples for testing from healthcare facilities across the US.
Skeletal remains have been found in a sunken barrel at Lake Mead as water levels drop to their lowest since 1937, FOX 5's Dani Masten reports. (Video via KVVU) LAS VEGAS - A juvenile has died from a brain-eating amoeba after swimming in Lake Mead earlier this month, the Southern...
A parasitic amoeba that causes deadly brain infections has turned up in a warm spring in Grand Teton National Park, prompting a warning Monday for anybody intent on soaking in the popular pool: If you absolutely must take a dip, try not to get water up y
Skeletal remains have been found in a sunken barrel at Lake Mead as water levels drop to their lowest since 1937, FOX 5's Dani Masten reports. (Video via KVVU) LAS VEGAS - A juvenile has died from a brain-eating amoeba after swimming in Lake Mead earlier this month, the Southern Ne...
A Florida teenager is recovering after contracting primary amoebic meningoencephalitis, an often-deadly infection caused by the brain-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 ...