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[First isolation in Italy of Naegleria australiensis (De Jonckheere, 1981)]
M Scaglia1, M Strosselli, V Grazioli
1Istituto di Clinica delle Malattie Infettive dell'Università, IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo, Pavia.
Parassitologia
|December 1, 1984
Abstract:
An epidemiological investigation was carried out in Northern Italian spa to detect presence and incidence of free-living amoebae, mostly belonging to amphizoic species Acanthamoeba and Naegleria. Seven pathogenic strains of Naegleria spp. were isolated. Morpho-biological characterization and indirect immunofluorescence assays showed that all these strains belong to N. australiensis, a new pathogenic species. Such a species could induce, along with N. fowleri and Acanthamoeba spp., fatal meningo-encephalitis in man and other mammals.