Virulent Naegleria fowleri in an Indoor Swimming Pool
- 15 September 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 201 (4360) , 1025
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.684423
Abstract
A reservoir of pathogenic Naegleria fowleri has been located in the cracked wall of a swimming pool where repeated outbreaks of primary amoebic meningoencephalitis were observed between 1962 and 1965.This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
- Temperature Tolerance of Pathogenic and Nonpathogenic Free-Living AmoebasScience, 1972
- Studies of limax amoebae in a Swimming PoolHydrobiologia, 1971
- Amoebic Meningoencephalitis: Sixteen FatalitiesScience, 1968