The organism can grow in freshwater bodies such as lakes, rivers, and farm dams, backyard garden hoses, spas, and swimming ...

The pathogen in question is called Naegleria fowleri. The "brain-eating" part makes it sound like an unlikely creature of ...

Western Australians are being warned about a deadly organism that can lurk in untreated or poorly treated water during a ...

This causes swelling and death. Unlike other common pathogenic freshwater organisms (i.e. pathogenic bacteria), you cannot be ...

with the bacteria (green areas) then introduced amoebas (yellow) to the same sample. Pseudomonas immediately detected and quickly overwhelmed the amoebas.

The microscopic, single-celled amoeba can cause an infection of the brain, and is usually fatal. Commonly found in warm freshwater, the amoeba enters the body through the nose. The DOH did not ...

Light microscope image and illustration of a Thecofilosea amoeba with intracellular Legionellales bacteria ('Ca. Pokemonas kadabra'). The bacteria were stained red by so-called 'fluorescence in ...