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Studies on pathogenic free-living amoebae performed in Korea were briefly reviewed. One strain of Naegleria fowleri was isolated from the sewage, and 3 strains of Acanthamoeba culbertsoni from a reservoir...
Acanthamoeba culbertsoni is a pathogenic free-living amoeba causing primary amoebic meningoencephalitis (PAME) in human and mouse. Several reports on the immune responses in mice with this amoebic infection have been...
The natural killer (NK) cell activity of splenocytes and recycling capacity of NK cells were observed by combining the 51Cr-release cytotoxicity assay and single cell cytotoxicity assay against YAC-1. The...
The role of macrophages was observed in intranasally infected C3H/HeJ mice with trophozoites (3 x 10(5)) of Acanthamoeba culbertsoni which was a kind of free-living amoebae inducing meningoencephalitis in human...
Observations were made on the differences of cell-mediated responses in mice of three infection groups differently scheduled in their severity with pathogenic Acanthamoeba culbertsoni. Infections were done by dropping 5...
The natural killer cell activity of splenocytes and TBC, active NK cells, recycling capacity of natural killer cells were observed by means of both the 51Cr-release cytotoxicity assay and single...
The purpose of this observation was to investigate the natural killer cell activities in mice infected with pathogenic free-living amoeba, Naegleria fowleri and Acanthamoeba culbertsoni according to the infection doses,...
Observations were made on the differences in cell-mediated immune responses in the mice infected with strongly pathogenic Naegleria fowleri ITMAP 359, weakly pathogenic Naegleria jadini 0400, or non-pathogenic Naegleria gruberi...
Naegleria fowleri is the cause of primary amoebic meningoencephalitis in man. IL-2 levels after stimulation of T lymphocytes by PHA or N. fowleri lysates, the amounts of T lymphocyte...