1st Edition

Free-Living Amebas Natural History, Prevention, Diagnosis, Pathology, and Treatment of Disease

By A. Julio Martinez Copyright 1985

    This book places greater emphasis on the practical problems of epidemiology, prevention, diagnosis, and pathological aspects of the two principle types of free-living amoebic infection: the acute disease produced by Naegleria fowleri and the chronic, subacute and opportunistic form, produced by acanthamoeba spp.

    1. Introduction 2. Historical Perspective 3. Protozoology, taxonomy, and nomenclature of free-living amebas 4. Ecology, epidemiology, and environmental factors 5. The disease: Clinical types � manifestation and course 6. Anatomo-pathological characteristics: PAM and GAE 7. Laboratory Diagnosis: PAM and GAE � cerebrospinal fluid examination 8. Retrospective diagnosis: PAM and GAE 9. Animal Models: PAM and GAE 10. Free-living and amphizoic amebas in animal hosts

    Biography

    A. Julio Martinez