Differential Growth Rates and In Vitro Drug Susceptibility to Currently Used Drugs for Multiple Isolates of Naegleria fowleri

Author:

Russell A. Cassiopeia12,Kyle Dennis E.123ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases, Athens, Georgia, USA

2. Department of Infectious Diseases, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA

3. Department of Cellular Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA

Abstract

Naegleria fowleri , also known as the brain-eating amoeba, is ubiquitous in warm freshwater and is an opportunistic pathogen that causes primary amoebic meningoencephalitis. Although few cases are described each year, the disease has a case fatality rate of >97%.

Funder

Georgia Research Alliance

HHS | NIH | National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

Publisher

American Society for Microbiology

Subject

Infectious Diseases,Cell Biology,Microbiology (medical),Genetics,General Immunology and Microbiology,Ecology,Physiology

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