Sucker-like structures on the pathogenic amoeba Naegleria fowleri
- 1 January 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Applied and Environmental Microbiology
- Vol. 47 (1) , 12-14
- https://doi.org/10.1128/aem.47.1.12-14.1984
Abstract
Using scanning electron microscopy, we observed sucker-like structures on amoebae of 13 human isolates of Naegleria fowleri. The number of suckers per amoeba seemed to vary according to the virulence of the strain. We propose the term amoebastome to describe this unique sucker-like structure of N. fowleri. ImagesThis publication has 12 references indexed in Scilit:
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