Free-living amoebae as opportunistic and non-opportunistic pathogens of humans and animals.

By F. Schuster, G. Visvesvara. International Journal of Parasitology, 2004

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Pathogenic and opportunistic free-living amoebae: Acanthamoeba spp., Balamuthia mandrillaris, Naegleria fowleri, and Sappinia diploidea. (2007, methodology): “Both Acanthamoeba and Balamuthia cause infections of the lungs and skin (Martinez & Visvesvara, 1997; Schuster & Visvesvara, 2004a; Visvesvara & Maguire, 2006).”
Biogeography and dispersal of micro-organisms: a review emphasizing protists (2006, background): “In an extensive literature search, Vyverman (1996) found that among the more than 2680 desmids recorded from the Indo-Malaysian/North Australian region, about 800 (31%) have never been found elsewhere, and 4% of the desmids of Papua New Guinea can be considered as paleotropic taxa.”
Acanthamoeba: biology and increasing importance in human health. (2006, neutral): “…have been recovered from hospitals, dialysis units, eye wash stations, human nasal cavities, pharyngeal swabs, lungs tissues, skin lesions, corneal biopsies, cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and brain necropsies (reviewed in Khan, 2003; Marciano-Cabral & Cabral, 2003; Schuster & Visvesvara, 2004).”