A 48 year old man with amoebic pericarditis did not improve after pericardiocentesis. Facilities for echocardiography and haemodynamic studies were not available. Cardiac compression was suspected and at emergency pericardiectomy subacute effusive constrictive amoebic pericarditis was found. The patient recovered. This is believed to be the first report of a case of subacute effusive constricti...

The effect of 24 anti-amoebic and other chemotherapeutic compounds on six strains of hartmannellid amoebae was studied by tissue culture, agar diffusion, and liquid axenic culture. Of the recognized anti-amoebic compounds only one inhibited growth of the amoebae, which were remarkable for their resistance. Two compounds, hydroxystilbamidine isethionate and 5-fluorocytosine, showed some amoebici...

Amoebiasis is the third leading cause of death due to a parasitic infection in the world after malaria and schistosomiasis [1]. The pleuropulmonary localization is the second most common extra-intestinal expression after liver damage [1]. The direct pulmonary Entamoeba histolytica infestation is less common than secondary form called “neighborhood” reaction [2]. The authors propose to report a ...

Primary amoebic meningoencephalitis is a fulminant infection of the human central nervous system caused by Naegleria fowleri, a free-living amoeba that thrives in artificially or naturally heated water. The infection usually is acquired while bathing or swimming in such waters. The portal of entry is the olfactory neuroepithelium. This report describes fatal meningoencephalitis caused by N. fow...

Myxosporeans are best known for the diseases they cause in commercially important fish species. Identification of myxosporeans at the species-level is mainly based on conventional methods. The 18S rRNA gene sequence of morphologically identified Myxobolus orissae infecting the gill lamellae of mrigal carp Cirrhinus mrigala was characterized in the present study. The plasmodia of M.orissae were ...

Primary amoebic meningoencephalitis (PAM) caused by free-living amebae Naegleria fowleri is a rare and fatal condition. A fatal case of primary amoebic meningoencephalitis was diagnosed in a 5-month-old infant who presented with the history of decrease breast feeding, fever, vomiting, and abnormal body movements. Trophozoites of Naegleria fowleri were detected in the direct microscopic examinat...

Myxosporeans are best known for the diseases they cause in commercially important fish species. Identification of myxosporeans at the species-level is mainly based on conventional methods. The 18S rRNA gene sequence of morphologically identified Myxobolus orissae infecting the gill lamellae of mrigal carp Cirrhinus mrigala was characterized in the present study. The plasmodia of M. orissae were...

Gill disease in Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar L., causes big losses in the salmon farming industry. Until now, tools to cultivate microorganisms causing gill disease and models to study the gill responses have been lacking. Here we describe the establishment and characterization of two cell lines from the gills of Atlantic salmon. Atlantic salmon gill cell ASG-10 consisted of cells staining for ...

background: poor hygiene will provide good condition for corneal infections by opportunistic free-living amoebae (fla) in soft contact lens wearers. in the present study an amoebic keratitis due to hartmannella has been recognized in a 22-year-old girl with a history of improper soft contact lens use. she had unilateral keratitis on her left eye. her clinical signs were eye pain, redness, blurr...

Article history: Received 6 May 2016 Received in revised form 2 October 2016 Accepted 4 October 2016 Available online 06 October 2016 Gill disease (GD) in farmed Atlantic salmon may be due to the impact of several agents that may interact. We followed the infections of four gill disease-associated agents during the first year of production in six farms; examining the correlation between their d...