After being sick for several days after the visit, the toddler succumbed to a rare infection caused by Naegleria fowleri, also known as The Brain-Eating Amoeba. But what is this amoeba and why is ...

coli triggering a diarrhoea outbreak that affected about 20,000 children. Naegleria fowleri, an amoeba thriving in contaminated water, also claimed four lives, with another fatality recently ...

One of these species was Acanthurus leucocheilus, “a large surgeonfish,” that “inhabits shallow, protected reef flats and slopes reefs” of Southeast Asia, researchers said and photos show.

Known ominously as the “brain-eating amoeba,” Naegleria fowleri demonstrates remarkable metabolic flexibility that allows it to survive in both aerobic and anaerobic conditions. This single-celled ...

In some rare cases, parasites such as Naegleria fowleri—found in warm freshwater—can cause a severe form of meningitis known as primary amoebic meningoencephalitis (PAM), which is almost always fatal.

1 College of Biology and Food, Shangqiu Normal University, Shangqiu, China 2 College of Veterinary Medicine, Northwest A&F University, Xianyang, China Conclusion: This study emphasizes that deworming ...