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Genome-wide identification of pathogenicity factors of the free-living amoeba Naegleria fowleri

BACKGROUND: The free-living amoeba Naegleria fowleri is the causative agent of the rapidly progressing and typically fatal primary amoebic meningoencephalitis (PAM) in humans. Despite the devastating nature of this disease, which results in > 97% mortality, knowledge of the pathogenic mechanisms...

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Autores principales: Zysset-Burri, Denise C, Müller, Norbert, Beuret, Christian, Heller, Manfred, Schürch, Nadia, Gottstein, Bruno, Wittwer, Matthias
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4082629/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24950717
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2164-15-496