Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases
Different roads to the brain: A brief overview of divergent pathways and convergent mechanisms in amoebic neuroinvasion.
Ruqaiyyah Siddiqui, Sutherland K Maciver, Naveed Ahmed Khan
Published: 202610.1016/j.meegid.2026.105888
Abstract
Free-living amoebae such as Acanthamoeba spp., Balamuthia mandrillaris, and Naegleria fowleri are opportunistic protists capable of causing devastating infections of the central nervous system. Although these organisms differ in ecology, morphology,…
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