Acanthamoeba spp. are free-living amebae that inhabit a variety of air, soil, and water
environments. However, these amebae can also act as opportunistic as well as …

Acanthamoeba is an opportunistic protozoan that is widely distributed in the environment
and is well recognized to produce serious human infections, including a blinding keratitis …

ABSTRACT The 18S rRNA gene (Rns) phylogeny of Acanthamoeba is being investigated as
a basis for improvements in the nomenclature and taxonomy of the genus. We previously …

Soil protists are commonly suggested being solely bacterivorous, serving together with
bacterivorous nematodes as the main controllers of the bacterial energy channel in soil food …

1. A host for viruses 2. A host for yeast 3. A host for protists 4. Acanthamoeba and bacteria
interactions 5. Is Acanthamoebaan evolutionary ancestor of macrophages? 6 …

Infections caused by small, free-living amebas are still unfamiliar to many clinicians,
pathologists, and laboratorians. As of 31 July 1989, more than 140 cases of primary amebic …

Naked, lobose amoebae, the majority belonging to the subclass Gymnamoebia (Page
1976b; Levine et al. 1980), have been found in many different marine habitats (Anderson …

This book places greater emphasis on the practical problems of epidemiology, prevention,
diagnosis, and pathological aspects of the two principle types of free-living amoebic …

Species of Acanthamoeba were first described using morphological characters including
cyst structure and cytology of nuclear division. More than 20 nominal species were proposed …

Members of the genus Acanthamoeba are being isolated with increasing frequency from
clinical specimens, especially contact lens solutions. Although the genus was first …